Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

22 reviews

fatfrog's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Sexual violence, Slavery, Police brutality, and Cultural appropriation

violet_viper's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

This is an important read for everyone. It’s a concise summary of the history of racism in Britain and how it’s led to where we are today. It’s an invitation to listen, and to educate ourselves, and it did a brilliant job. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Minor: Violence

glittery_phoenix's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

This is an incredible, world-view shifting book that should be an essential read for every Brit. 

It conceptualises terms like race, racism, prejudice, colourism, intersectionality and institutional racism..... But it does so in a way that is not only digestible to the reader but creates a tangible mental map of how everything is connected. 

Touching on topics from history- the Atlantic slave trade to individual cases of assault, police brutality and injustice. This helps to explain the bigger picture of how things came to be, but also cultural turning points that had huge influence on the culture of Britian.

As someone from Liverpool I was very aware of our city's dark past with slavery, but the way Reni brings to life this history is brilliantly insightful while still rightfully difficult to learn about. 

I felt privileged to be taken on the journey of the author from her childlike innocence up to the empowering and beautifully eloquent woman she is at the time of writing. 

No review can do this justice, I can only implore you to read it. If it makes you uncomfortable then that is all the more reason to not shift your gaze. This book should be essential reading for every British person and anyone, of any race, who cares about understanding life experiences outside their own.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Trafficking, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation

adampjt's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

narbine's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Classism

gayelfboi's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Sexual harassment

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative

5.0

i dont really have anything to say about a book like this, honestly. its something you can only learn from, rather than have sort of criticism on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Classism, and Deportation

lenni_sc's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Sexism, Slavery, Colonisation, and Classism

lozdouglas's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

Informative about race and the history of Black people and Britain. Well presented with historical and more recent evidence, stats and interviews 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Violence

uhm_kai's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I think everybody should read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, Police brutality, Pregnancy, and Classism