Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi

4 reviews

talonsontypewriters's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Hate crime, Trafficking, War, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Religious bigotry, Classism, and Police brutality

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Torture, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Colonisation, Racial slurs, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Genocide, Child abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Transphobia, Pregnancy, Suicide, Pedophilia, Infertility, Mass/school shootings, Antisemitism, Alcohol, Homophobia, and Ableism

stevia333k's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

5.0

This anthology gives me a lot of topics to further look up. Oppression is heartbreaking but I liked how this history took pains to show how things got layered upon layered some melting quicker than others because a lot of histiography tends to act like the time dimension doesn't exist and that things are eternal. Like yeah, we were always bad off but there's been many slow creeps towards fascism, like revolution & counterrevolution. I'm marginalized but I'm white, so I'm feeling awkward about using the pronoun we, but still.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Religious bigotry, Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Classism, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Colonisation, Police brutality, Sexism, Genocide, Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Trafficking, War, and Violence

apworden's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is an excellent overview of African American history. The variety helps break up challenging content and allows for better reflection. The audiobook is also fantastic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Xenophobia, Violence, Torture, Slavery, Sexual violence, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Misogyny, Homophobia, and Hate crime

rorikae's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

 ‘Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019’ edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain is a collection of essays that tell the four-hundred-year history of people of African descent in the United States. It is an affecting collection that tells this history through highlighting both larger narratives and individual lives.
I think this is a perfect piece of introductory literature and to chronicle the changes across these years of history. Since each essay is of similar length, taking up about 10 to 15 minutes in the audiobook version, there isn’t a ton of time to delve deep into each topic, but in that way I think it is the perfect jumping off point for learning more. I believe this would be a perfect piece of literature to be taught in a high school history class that then invites each student to pick the essay or time in history that they found the most compelling to do more research on. There are lots of names and points in history that I know I will be looking up more about spurred on by their inclusion in this collection.
I highly recommend the audiobook. Each essay gets its own narrator and that adds to the community feel of the anthology. This is essential reading and I highly, highly recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Violence