Reviews tagging 'Racism'

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

54 reviews

aidareads's review against another edition

inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

this is a must-read even for those unfamiliar with nonfiction (such as me) and should be mandatory reading

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Slavery

atruthuniversallyacknowledged's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

jesusnoaccent's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Moderate: Racism

krmreads2024's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Graphic: Racism

charming_killerqueen's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Graphic: Racism and Violence

Minor: Sexism and War

cdorfmeyer's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Violence, and Colonisation

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Drug use

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Graphic: Racism and Police brutality

niamh12's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Addiction, Rape, Sexual violence, and War

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

jwells's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective

We should be mentioning James Baldwin every time someone makes a list of the great American writers. He's so wise and compassionate, so insightful and so eloquent. I only wish this book wasn't still so fresh and relevant as it was when it was written.
As an aside, I almost died when he was talking to the kid from the separatist movement.
Baldwin: So, when all the black people move out of the U.S., and form a new Black Muslim country, what will the economy of this new Black Muslim country be based on? Is there a plan for that?
The kid: *blank stare*
(Apparently no one but Baldwin thought to ask about that kind of thing...) LOL

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Rape, Slavery, Police brutality, and War

I feel like we need two tags for racism, sometimes. One for a book that is racist, and another for a book that sensitively discusses racism from the perspective of a person of color trying to educate. This is the latter. It describes racism in a way that is uncomfortable to read, but it's an absolute classic for a reason.