unomi57's review
4.0
Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Physical abuse
audc's review
3.75
It’s informative of Coates’ experience and life as a black man in America which is packed with a lot of fear that then turns into anger.
While I agree with the sentiment of Dreamers in America and a majority being white or wanting to be white (ie. having power and authority to inflict destruction), I do not agree with how inflated, fatalist, galactic, racism is portrayed. While it has become cultural and institutionalized -integrated- I do not agree with Coates’ fatalistic view. He ends with the struggle and more of a call for ‘fight for yourself’ instead of strive as a collective.
For this, this book transmits fear and morphs it into anger. As he doesn’t spend nearly as much time on the solution as describing the problem. I can understand where and how he got to his conclusion, but there is a danger in generalising.
Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Slavery, Racial slurs, Rape, Blood, Physical abuse, and Violence
indeedithappens's review
5.0
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
clarabooksit's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Police brutality, Death, Grief, and Racism
Moderate: Gun violence, Child abuse, Violence, and Physical abuse
farleighelse's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Police brutality
Moderate: Physical abuse
Minor: Rape
hyperpension's review
4.75
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Violence, Child death, Hate crime, Grief, and Death
Moderate: Slavery, Abandonment, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Homophobia, Sexual violence, and Drug use