Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander

9 reviews

mollylovesbooks's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Slavery, and Police brutality

ftmemobrew89's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Police brutality

Moderate: Racial slurs

bookiecharm's review

3.0

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Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Police brutality, and Murder

sophiaroesler's review

informative reflective

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, and Police brutality

tnb10's review

challenging hopeful informative reflective tense slow-paced

2.0

Great information from an African-American woman’s perspective. Part of it was challenging to follow, but the overall point was clear and the emotion was raw and true. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Hate crime, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Police brutality, Grief, and Classism

sarahsbookstacks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, and Murder

sarahsbookstacks's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Graphic: Death, Racism, and Police brutality

savvyrosereads's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Out now [Thanks to Grand Central Publishing for providing me with a gifted copy!]

Rating: 5/5 stars

The Trayvon Generation is an essay collection focusing on various ideas relating to race and racism, as well as the intersection of these ideas with art, poetry, and education.

I absolutely loved this essay collection. The pieces are beautifully written and captivating, and focus on important topics. As a Yale alumnus, I particularly appreciated how Alexander used New Haven and the university as a case study for several of the essays, and for discussions of race and racism in academia and in history. The poetry and artwork included is also phenomenal, and I will definitely need to check out more of the work by several of the artists and writers featured.

In short, this is a short and relatively straightforward book, but it’s a book we should all read. If you’re new to nonfiction writing on racism/anti-racism, you may want to first dive into some works that will lay a foundation for some of the principles and ideas discussed.

Recommended to anyone, but especially if you like: nonfiction; essay collections; discussions of race and identity.

CW: Racism; discrimination; police brutality.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Police brutality

ktkeps's review

challenging dark emotional informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Violence, and Police brutality