Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Une colère noire : Lettre à mon fils by Ta-Nehisi Coates

11 reviews

moonbasket's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

This is one of the best books I have ever read. Coates is eloquent and visceral with his writing while also not abandoning AAVE for the King's English. The audiobook is read by the author and he does a phenomenal job. He is a great speaker and writer. It is a short book that I plan to read again because I know I will get more out of it. I am certain I missed things in the nuance and depth of his words that I just am not able to or ready to full understand right now. 
I highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Police brutality, Grief, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Gun violence and Violence

Minor: Bullying, Cannibalism, and Alcohol

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

meghan1111's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Child death

keyradiator's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Absolutely breathtaking. Loved damn near every word in this book.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Classism

chronicacademia's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Homophobia, Misogyny, and Sexism

unomi57's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racism, and Police brutality

audc's review against another edition

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

indeedithappens's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

clarabooksit's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Police brutality, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Violence

farleighelse's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

VV good. emotional. Would recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Police brutality

Moderate: Physical abuse

Minor: Rape