Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

A Liberdade é Uma Luta Constante: Ferguson, a Palestina e as Bases de um Movimento by Angela Y. Davis

28 reviews

booksandteatime's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racism, Slavery, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Colonisation, and War

bashsbooks's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

This book is incredible - I am going to need my own copy to review and annotate. There were so many different important points that Davis made that I would like to note down, so many quotes that I would like to let mull in my brain, so many connections that are extremely relevant in our current moment - even though most of this text was written around a decade ago. Some key points that resonated with me quite a bit (and that kept coming up) were: the distinction between civil rights and freedom, the idea of what a terrorist is (and the political slant inherent in that word), the way that collectives of black women have long been a force of change in this country, and how to build an international struggle and get people relating to problems that seem abstract and far away. 

If I were only reviewing the text, this would easily be 5 stars. But since I listened to it as an audiobook, I feel like I should point out that the interview section is a bit confusing because it is ALL read by Davis, and sometimes it's difficult to tell when she is reading the interviewer's questions versus her own answers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Classism

Moderate: Genocide, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Colonisation, War, and Deportation

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Transphobia

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Racism, Police brutality, and Colonisation

Minor: Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, and Sexual violence

soniajoy98's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, and Colonisation

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Police brutality

Minor: Torture, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, War, and Classism

lady_of_the_labyrinth's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, and Police brutality

Moderate: Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Colonisation

kshertz's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

4.0

There’s so many important facts and information here. Reading her words on Palestine during their genocide is even more devastating. I am taking this information and using it in my daily volunteering. It helped me to understand how to relate to others and the need to align myself with the most needy. No one is free until we are all . A great book to learn so much. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Classism

chronicacademia's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Police brutality, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Classism

fromthefoxhole's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

So I listened to the audiobook, and let me say up front: Angela Davis could read me her grocery list and I'd enjoy it. Every word is measured, pronunciations were clearly studied in advance, and her timbre is warm and authoritative. 

4.5 - half star removed mostly because this has multiple chapters that are speeches she has given at various conferences and events. In a few cases I've either watched the speech on YouTube or read it as a one off, and some of the material overlaps in a way that makes it slightly less impactful overall. I think it could also have used a final chapter that acted as a final summarization/call to further education at the very least. 

Despite this slight grievance, I think this book does well in its undertaking to relate struggle across location, gender, race, religion, nationality, or whatever divides humanity might face. Davis utilizes the wealth of own-voices books, movements across history, and anecdotes from her own past to present to the reader a framework within which we can find our foothold as activists. She speaks on trans and queer liberation, the occupation of Palestine, the ongoing struggle of Black people and people of color in the US. She briefly touches on disability rights and mental health institutionalization as well. She never shies away from the fact that there might be more points of intersectionality than previously understood, and I think that openness serves the reader well in providing external context to her works. 

Anyway, I love Angela Davis. I've added so many books from her references here to my own reading list, and I'm excited to get cracking on those.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Transphobia, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Classism, and Deportation

jessereadsthings's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Colonisation

Moderate: Hate crime, Police brutality, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia

caelinsullivan's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual violence, and Colonisation