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Miksi en enää puhu valkoisille rasismista by Reni Eddo-Lodge
31 reviews
penofpossibilities's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Hate crime, Grief, Police brutality, Racism, Murder, and Gun violence
prettynerdy3's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Classism, Grief, Islamophobia, and Slavery
heisiiri's review
4.25
I hope more books like this get the spotlight in the future. This one is UK focused, and though I could definitely draw plenty of parallels to things that happen in Finland, I'd love to read something like this about the perspectives of POC living in the Nordic countries.
Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia
Moderate: Police brutality and Misogyny
samdalefox's review against another edition
3.5
Main con: the larger points on intersectionality (particuarly around that of class) I found to be overly simplistic, probably because I've read more around the subject - I'd recommend reading Bell Hooks and Angela Saini, plus Eddo Lodge credits the coiner of the term intersectionaliy Dr Kimberlé Crenshaw. I also found this slow to read as an audiobook, so I read it at 1.5x speed. Main pro: It gives a UK perspective with UK examples. This may be obvious but it's important to highlight. A common theme in our culture is the ignorant view that racism isn't a problem here because it doesn't look exactly like that what we see in American culture, news, and anti-racist literature. American civil rights history often eclipses the UK one. The UK absolutely does have racism and a rich civil rights history and Eddo-Lodge does well to introduce many contemporary examples across England that should shake up newcomers to the topic. My favourite quote on this subject: "Faced with collective forgetting, we must fight to remember".
Ultimately, although I personally didn't find the way it was written very engaging, I have learnt more and I greatly value how accessible the book is, I genuinely think it will engage a wider audience that we need to become engaged in anti-racism. The author recognises that racism is structural, that structures are made out of people and thus are an amplification of personal prejudices. I have hope that this book starts that process by challenging and educating the UK population on our personal prejudices.
Minor: Racial slurs, Police brutality, Racism, Hate crime, and Classism
uhm_kai's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Classism, and Colonisation
Moderate: Violence, Pregnancy, Sexism, Police brutality, and Classism
lish_e's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Sexism, and Hate crime
Moderate: Colonisation, Pedophilia, Islamophobia, and Sexual violence
Minor: Mental illness and Ableism
josxphinchen's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Slavery, and Police brutality
meganamelia's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Misogyny
Moderate: Classism, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Cultural appropriation, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Islamophobia, Murder, and Violence
softgalaxy's review against another edition
5.0
Reading it in 2021 was eye-opening as I remember how different anti-racism was treated in the media 5-10 years ago. As Eddo-Lodge rightly says, there has been a renaissance in societal consciousness regarding whiteness and Blackness. It’s been wonderful to see, but there is a long way to go.
Every white person should read this
Graphic: Police brutality and Violence
Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism
gabiabudhabi's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Racism, Murder, Sexual assault, Violence, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Physical abuse, and Hate crime