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esme_may's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
medium-paced
4.5
Everyone in the UK should read this. It would make a great introduction to reading about race as well, it's petty accessible and the narrative voice is delightfully sarcastic
Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Bullying, Genocide, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and Classism
Minor: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Slavery
lukerik's review against another edition
funny
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
If Zack de la Rocha were British and wrote a book.
It’s a hard piece of writing to categorise. Political and personal and polemical. It’s almost like a personal work of sociology, properly referenced and with an interesting bibliography. Akala is obviously a very intelligent man with a finely tuned bullshit detector and a laser-like intellect that he turns on some very confusing issues. Thorough, precise, and sensible arguments and he never takes rhetorical shortcuts even when he’s angry. I didn’t agree with all his conclusions, but if we’re all going to agree we may as well give up and stop thinking now. A very thought-provoking book. I often found it sending my mind off at tangents so that reading it is almost like engaging in a dialogue. Also very funny at times.
Graphic: Bullying, Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Classism
achingallover's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, and Islamophobia
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