Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

9 reviews

disco_sophia's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia

readandfindout's review

informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

Style/writing: 5 stars
Themes: 4.5 stars
Perspective: 5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Racism, Violence, and Police brutality

Moderate: Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Slavery, and Classism

alyssa_s10's review

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I listen to the audio book of this after listen to audio book "How to Be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi. This is a great follow-up book. It is very eye opening to the effect of racism in America on all citizens.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Racial slurs, and Xenophobia

purplepenning's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

There are a lot of excellent "antiracist" reads out right now but if I had the power to grant my friends, family, and colleagues access to and genuine understanding of one, and only one, this would be my pick. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Classism, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Islamophobia, Slavery, Xenophobia, Police brutality, and Religious bigotry

kurumipanda's review

challenging hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Xenophobia

aargot1's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Abandonment, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Islamophobia

caseythereader's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Thanks to One World Books for the free copy of this book.

 - We know anti-Black racism is at the heart of so much in our country, and in THE SUM OF US, McGhee demonstrates exactly that and then some, using the public pools we white people opted to drain rather than integrate as a metaphor: we'd rather cause pain to everyone than let Black people take even one step up the ladder. Everything from the decline of union organizing to the subprime mortgage crisis has an element of racial animus at the root.
- It's one thing to know white Americans treat life as a zero-sum game, and it's quite another to see it laid out like this. I think if you are a white American, you should read this book. It's a lot to chew on and I think will inform a lot of antiracism work going forward, as you'll be better prepared to look for this side of whatever issue you're working on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Colonisation, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, and Xenophobia

teresareads's review

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Xenophobia and Slavery

bootsmom3's review

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia