Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

4 reviews

hannahwinston's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

Whatever you think you know about the origins of racism/classism/caste, this book goes even further.

While I knew a lot about the American Caste, I did not know how much it influenced Nazis. There were several lines that blew my mind but this one, about selling souvenirs from lynchings during the Jim Crow Era, knocked me off my feet:

“This was singularly American. Even the Nazis did not stoop to selling souvenirs of Auschwitz, wrote time magazine many years later.”

The biggest takeaway/reminder:

“Evil asks little of the dominant caste other than to sit back and do nothing. All that it needs from bystanders is their silent complicity in the evil committed on their behalf.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

viporras's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, and War

nicole_p's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

tlilf's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail