Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Gebrandmarkt: Die wahre Geschichte des Rassismus in Amerika by Ibram X. Kendi

12 reviews

infinite_harness9030's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Confinement, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Trafficking, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Misogyny, Kidnapping, and Deportation

overbooked207's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

This is a very dense book. It will need to be reread many times because the first read was like a primer. I took as many notes as I could. I gave myself a little affirming wink whenever I saw a book referenced that I’d already read and jotted down others that are more on my TBR list. Of all the books I’ve read by this author, this one was the heaviest. This one will ground me, whereas the others activate me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.0

The book just moves inexorably, brutally through history. Every word packs a punch, and there was really no place to slow down at all. At certain points I lost track of the through line and I feel like it might have been a little more effective with a less broad thesis. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Murder

Moderate: Rape

meant2breading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

I mostly read fiction, so I won’t be rating this like I do other books. Stamped From the Beginning should be a required educational reading. It is a lot of information! To help me absorb and process it all better, I read about 20-30 pages a day. Very thankful to have had the opportunity to read and better learn this history. I will definitely plan to reread this again one day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Murder, Colonisation, and Classism

crybabybea's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, and War

asainspace's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Comprehensive, useful, readable history of anti-Black racism in America.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Xenophobia, and Police brutality

Moderate: Genocide and Trafficking

Minor: Islamophobia and War

megmu18's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual violence and Murder

bgirl1214's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Slavery

Moderate: Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Gaslighting

Minor: Gun violence, Sexual violence, and Violence

rupl's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

Dense, detailed look at US history from a lens completely overlooked in the US school system. You'll brush with basic facts you learned long ago, but their rich stories might be completely new. This book calmly yet passionately tells another US history, using five major characters to guide us through various eras.

I learned new parts of history and re-learned many others, all the while learning not to characterize individuals, but each of their actions. The book compiles countless examples of segregation, assimilation, and finally antiracism, from fleeting moments to entire legacies of individuals. By methodically reading from start to finish, and looking at example after example of each ideology I formed a better, more accurate view of history as it relates to power, racist policy erected to protect the powerful, and the racist ideas that get created in order to defend racist policies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, and Police brutality

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, Antisemitism, Murder, and Colonisation

Minor: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence