Reviews tagging 'Death'

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala

4 reviews

sakisreads's review

dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

My author friend personally knows the author (!), and it’s a topic I always love to read up on, so I borrowed this one from the library 👏🏼

There were a few quotes that stuck out to me:

When people say ‘But what about [insert injustice here]?’ the response of ‘You have not made an insightful observation by distraction’ was SO powerful 😳

When discussing how media portrays something like tax evasion to gang crime: ‘Rich people crime good, poor people crime bad.’ 

When in discussion about how black people living under apartheid said not nice things about white people: ‘White people’s hurt feelings are conceptually equivalent to black humans’ actual lives.’

Honestly? Incredibly insightful 🗣️ I didn’t know about Cuba having one of the biggest, (and well-maintained) healthcare systems either!

Definitely one to read and digest! 4 out of 5 stars for me, thank you ✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation

saskiahill's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Genocide, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

Minor: Antisemitism

saffrondunsdon's review against another edition

reflective

5.0

Was an eye opener but not in the white way of idek racism existed but like I have no idea what goes on as a minority in growing up in London. Like the fact I have and probably will never be stopped and searched but it’s so often for many people because of police to have it from childhood is mental. Blame accusation and goes into everything about blackness mixed ness and even asianess arabness and of course every native identity. Why’s it so hard for those conserving whiteness to feel excluded from independence so much so that they created UKIP?? Huh?? UK Independence????? Akala is amazing

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death and Violence

beca_reads's review

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, and Classism