Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

5 reviews

novella42's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Islamophobia, Murder, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Rape, Sexism, and Xenophobia

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

3.25

a succinct, reflective, nod-inviting, oft thought-provoking and searing read, the fire next time offers an insightful personal window into baldwin yet reflects america's deep-rooted structural problem of white patriarchy as a whole. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Slavery, Police brutality, Islamophobia, and Murder

Minor: Sexism

samugranjo's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Police brutality, and Colonisation

Minor: Drug use and Sexual violence

theuncannydani's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Police brutality, Religious bigotry, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Hate crime, Slavery, Trafficking, and Colonisation

samchase112's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

4.5

If we--and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others--do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world. If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: "God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time!"

James Baldwin's essay is a masterpiece, and should absolutely be read by every American. The personal, intelligent nature of his prose is incredibly powerful. There is really no describing this book; it must be experienced.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Violence

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Drug abuse