Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

11 reviews

kleinerdiktator's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Slavery, Racism, Police brutality, and Gun violence

tiernanhunter's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Slavery, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Medical content, Racism, Violence, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Cancer, Colonisation, Classism, Gun violence, Racial slurs, and Sexism

jessthanthree's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Excrement

anniereads221's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Police brutality, Murder, Islamophobia, Grief, Cancer, Ableism, Xenophobia, Transphobia, Antisemitism, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Mass/school shootings, Homophobia, Gun violence, Hate crime, Death, and Colonisation

felicity2023's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Police brutality and Gun violence

Minor: Transphobia

rieviolet's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I am really a beginner when it comes to reading about racism and other aspects of social justice, so this book was a very important read for me and helped me a lot to understand better, to learn more and to reflect, even when that meant difficult and painful reflections. 

Overall, I think the book was very accessible and easy to follow, although some of the ideas and themes included certainly need time to sink in and to be digested. 

I enjoyed the narrative choice of alternating  personal experiences and explanatory/reflective segments. It was really fascinating to follow the author's own journey and to see it reflected in the themes included in the chapter. 
I very much enjoyed the historical sections and I look forward to expanding my reading and my knowledge of these topics. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Bullying, Slavery, Cancer, Medical content, Sexism, Violence, Murder, and Colonisation

Minor: War, Transphobia, Homophobia, Gun violence, and Fatphobia

jellybean53's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Cancer, Medical content, Slavery, Xenophobia, Sexism, Police brutality, Violence, Gun violence, and Bullying

Minor: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Colonisation

jojo_'s review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia

Moderate: Cancer, Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Racial slurs, and Violence

Minor: Child death, Gun violence, Police brutality, Slavery, and War

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

"Americans have long been trained to see the deficiencies of people rather than policy. It's a pretty easy mistake to make: People are in our faces. Policies are distant. We are particularly poor at seeing the policies lurking behind the struggles of people.”

Ibram Kendi takes a good hard look at racism in this book. He discussed how racism tries to turn the word "racist" into an epethet so racist people can be mad about being called racist, and speaks at length about fighting racist policies that create racial inequity. He also spends quite a lot of time examining his own racism (and other things like homophobia) in his past endeavors to fight racism and how he's learned from that. I recommend this read, but it may be hard for anyone who's lives have been touched by cancer (discussed in the ending). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, and Racism

Moderate: Gun violence, Hate crime, Sexism, and Misogyny

Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Police brutality, and Forced institutionalization

jhpepper's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Mental illness, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, and Violence