Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

33 reviews

alexisgarcia's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

such a raw and emotional book, such an important read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Grief, Gun violence, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

deidrelj's review

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Colonisation, Police brutality, Racism, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, and Racial slurs

juksu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Gun violence, Police brutality, Hate crime, Grief, Death, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, Classism, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction and Slavery

hanhantap's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Hate crime, and Police brutality

Moderate: Slavery, Grief, Child abuse, Violence, Death, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Homophobia

smolone13's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Coates had written Between the World and Me for his 15-year-old son. The first part depicts Coates growing up in a stricter household. His parents would teach him to keep his wits about him. He was supposed to stay away from trouble. Coates quickly noticed and learned that he was treated differently from his white counterparts.

The second part depicts him as a young adult exploring the world. While in college he began to learn about how the world around him, outside of America. When he started to talk to other's in his black community he discovered that not everyone has hatred. When he traveled to France there was no fear but he still couldn't help but be wary of what awaits him. Not to mention when one of his old classmates was followed and killed by a police officer after another fellow black was killed by a police officer.

The last part Coates talks to the mother of Prince Jones, Coates's old classmate, and talks to her about her grief, pain, and how hard it is not to fight.

After reading this book again after high school I feel like I gained a new perspective. In high school I don't think I paid too much attention of what was going on so I didn't fully appreciate this book. Now as a young adult still witnessing the same black hate and police brutality this book has felt like witnessing the same death all over again. This felt necessary to read as it was heart-breaking. More people need to read this work even after it ends.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Police brutality

Minor: Death and Murder

indeedithappens's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Death of parent, Police brutality, War, Abandonment, Bullying, Child death, Physical abuse, Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Murder, Racial slurs, Violence, Child abuse, Classism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Gaslighting, Rape, and Xenophobia

22_catching_rae's review

dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Like Toni Morrison said—-“This is required reading.”

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Hate crime, Murder, Violence, Racial slurs, Racism, and Gun violence

tmchopra's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

cady_sass's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

“The entire narrative of this country argues against the truth of who you are.”

This should be required reading. It’s a bit dense, and, despite being very short, takes some time to read and absorb. The stream of consciousness prose can be a little off putting to some, but if you take the time to move through this slowly it really adds to it. Heavy. Hard-hitting and deeply moving. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Cursing, Violence, Death, Racial slurs, Gun violence, Classism, Slavery, Police brutality, Hate crime, and Child death

samugranjo's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Hate crime

Moderate: Colonisation, Slavery, Gun violence, Death, Grief, Racial slurs, Violence, and Classism