Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi

4 reviews

bookedbymadeline's review

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This was an informative, thought provoking look at US history and the stories that are often not told. I took my time reading this to fully understand and take in the information. The book has a variety of writing styles that make it such a unique collection from straightforward informational essays to novel-like recreations to poetry!

Four Hundred Souls should be a book that everyone reads and refers back to in order to understand history, systemic racism, and the problems/politics still present today. I look forward to using this as a stepping point and researching many of the topics that I had never learned about in school, as well as reading more from the contributors!  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, and War

Minor: Religious bigotry and Classism

crybabybea's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative medium-paced

3.75

Extremely informative, each of the writers chose a lesser-known topic to write about which was refreshing. Having 90+ writers made each chapter feel fresh, which really helped the pacing issues that history books seem to struggle with. Despite having so many writers and covering such a wide timeline, each chapter connected surprisingly well. Just in awe of the scope of this project and how well it came together.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, and Classism

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Religious bigotry, Murder, War, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Homophobia, Infertility, Pedophilia, Suicide, Transphobia, Antisemitism, Mass/school shootings, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

stevia333k's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

5.0

This anthology gives me a lot of topics to further look up. Oppression is heartbreaking but I liked how this history took pains to show how things got layered upon layered some melting quicker than others because a lot of histiography tends to act like the time dimension doesn't exist and that things are eternal. Like yeah, we were always bad off but there's been many slow creeps towards fascism, like revolution & counterrevolution. I'm marginalized but I'm white, so I'm feeling awkward about using the pronoun we, but still.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Murder, Pregnancy, Colonisation, War, and Classism