Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

38 reviews

readingelli's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Slavery

Moderate: Rape

nnennaya_'s review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Police brutality, Slavery, and Grief

audc's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

It was well penned and put into words the fear of being black. 
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. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Slavery, Racial slurs, Rape, Blood, Physical abuse, and Violence

mirandyli's review

emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

What a beautifully written book. Ta-Nehisi Coates is truly an artist with the written word.

Spoiler

Through this letter to his son, he is ending the cycle of generational trauma. However, there is nothing he can do to end the cycle of racism in America. He, like all Black children, was told by everyone to be twice as good. White children aren't told to be twice as good. In fact, they are told to take twice as much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Grief, Gun violence, Slavery, Classism, Death, Police brutality, and Racism

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

dylandalton's review

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Classism and Colonisation

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

purplepenning's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

Should certainly be required reading, in and out of the classroom. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Gun violence, Murder, Racism, and Death

Moderate: Racial slurs, Violence, Grief, Classism, and Slavery

iinasomnia's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Murder, Gun violence, Slavery, and Police brutality