Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga

23 reviews

readandfindout's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.25

Style/writing: 3.5 stars
Themes: 4.5 stars
Perspective: 4.5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Murder, and Colonisation

caidyn's review

informative slow-paced

4.0

This took me forever to read because it's thought-provoking and long. Definitely on par with Stamped, just that it focuses on the UK rather than America.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, and Colonisation

noonjinx's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

Really good. I learned a little about the slave trade at school in the 1970s but there’s a whole lot of myth busting and extra history here that was completely new to me. The book made me depressed, frustrated and angry, but never bored. The quotes from the defenders of slavery and the racist establishment even beyond WWII were particularly horrifying.

 

Olusoga’s writing is wonderfully vivid which stops all of the quotations and historique reference from weighing the narrative down. I listened to the audio version and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith’s narration is perfect too (as always).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Slavery

thorbrand's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

4.0

Wow wow wow wow. Everyone should read this wonderful, informative, lively, fascinating book. I can't even imagine the amount of research that went into this book and I'm immensely grateful to Olusoga for doing it. This is definitely one that I'll revisit on future, maybe a chapter here and there to remind myself. The only thing I found difficult about it (other than some of the horrific facts and stories, obviously, of which there are many) is how long it is - not a criticism of the book at all, because it's all killer no filler and I get the impression that it could have been twice or three times as long. More a criticism of myself and my inability to stick with historical tomes - but I did it, and feel all the more informed for it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, and Colonisation

Moderate: Sexual violence and Injury/Injury detail

readingelli's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

Brilliantly researched, very informative and well written for a lay audience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Trafficking, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Death and War

wetsokcs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

aliceintheuk4's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Wow. Just wow. David Olusoga has taken such an expansive and important topic and really done it justice in under 600 pages. Having watched ‘A House Through Time’ I knew he had a beautiful way of narrating the past, but this book is something else. Utterly heartbreaking, eye opening even for someone like me who considers themselves quite aware of Britain’s racist and downright evil history, Black and British is a must read for any Brit, regardless of beliefs. Such an important book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, and War

lochanreads's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

Black and British was a huge undertaking, a book it took me over 2 months to read! But in the end, I’m so glad I committed to finishing it and I believe it to be successful in its aim of reinforcing the narrative that Black British history is a significant part of our national heritage and it is a history that concerns all of us. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, and Violence

labeanorita's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, and Trafficking

Moderate: Death, Police brutality, Trafficking, Murder, and Colonisation

nibs's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, and Violence