Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson

42 reviews

artemisg's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism and Police brutality

eve81's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Deportation

iisa's review against another edition

emotional reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, and Police brutality

cookie_khumalo's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

peggy_racham's review against another edition

4.5

"We’re all haunted in some way. All my dance moves are my father’s."

As Connan Grey said "I truely am my parents child."

Some things can not be helped. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

rworrall78's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

For me this was one of those books that really comes together in a final closing scene of real beauty and joy.

The biggest message is about space, space to be, to love, to eat, to dance, to make music, to live.  It debts delves into the racism, violence and oppression visited on Black bodies and Black lives by white supremacist thinking, media  and policing.

So for that brilliance and I love it. Also for building such real characters.

Until the end the looping images weren't landing with me, so they seemed pleased with their own cleverness; a cleverness that just wasn't evident to me until the end. So I maybe love it more in hindsight than I did while I was reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Police brutality, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death

rinku's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Drug use, Hate crime, Racism, Sexual content, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

jouljet's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Grief, and Death of parent

aducharme4's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Police brutality, and Death of parent

liamliayaum's review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book is a melody. An ode to space and rhythm, of finding those spaces to live and grow in. An anthem of Black life, joy, and sorrow.

It was repetitive, often the same sentences repeated, which is why this was a 4.5 and not a 5 star for me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Racism