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Miksi en enää puhu valkoisille rasismista by Reni Eddo-Lodge
22 reviews
sakisreads's review against another edition
5.0
Now this is a PHENOMENAL book. It is hard hitting and informative. I had so many moments of anger and sadness throughout, but also a determination to address the prejudices I have in my own life. I have been struggling to find a sustainable way to address people’s racism, so Reni Eddo-Lodge talking about towards the end of the book that was impactful to me. I don’t feel that I have the eloquence to discuss what this book meant to me, so I’m including some of the text here that I really appreciated 😳
(Page 79) Opposing positive discrimination based on apprehensions about getting the best person for the job means inadvertently revealing what you think talent looks like, and the kind of person in which you think talent resides.
(Page 92) (White privilege) eases you into letting your guard down with white people, assured you’ll be taken seriously, but simultaneously not being surprised when a conversation highlights your differences against your white peers.
(Page 201) It’s worth questioning exactly who wins from the suggestion that the only working-class people worth of compassion are white, or that it’s black and ethnic minority people who are holding scant resources at the expense of white working-class people who are losing out.
A must read for anybody and everybody ✨
Graphic: Misogyny, Classism, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racism, Slavery, Colonisation, and Racial slurs
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
lenni_sc's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Murder, and Violence
Moderate: Sexism, Colonisation, Slavery, 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
puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Racism, Xenophobia, and Sexism
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
ellewg's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Slavery, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Police brutality, Murder, Sexual content, and Sexism
flara's review against another edition
3.75
Now I must say that as the book progressed, the writing became less fact-based and more emotional. I can't really blame Eddo-Lodge, she has every right to feel outraged. She wrote from her experience, which is experience shared by far too many. We don't need a statistic, an exact number, in order to believe or understand that yes, racism is truly ever-present and encompassing of non-white people's lives. Especially if those numbers had been laid out in previous chapters. I specifically mention this, because it has been pointed out in other reviews. I personally don't mind this, I think there is a need for an outcry where necessary. I haven't read as much as I would have liked about this topic in the past, I have to shamefully admit, therefore my review might be favourable due to this fact.
I enjoyed reading other people's perspectives, such as the interview (well, not really, but anyway) with Eddo-Lodge's mixed-raced friend, or her Texan white friend. I wish there were more, I think they intensified EL's point. The Nick Griffin interview was quite short, but oh my, so intense. I wanted to punch him through the book. How EL kept her cool during this phone call is beyond me.
All in all a great, essential read.
Graphic: Racism
Minor: Colonisation, Hate crime, Murder, Racial slurs, Slavery, and Violence
doireann_ni_chaoimh's review against another edition
4.5
I loved that her personality shone through in the writing even though it was really research based. It was refreshing to get a British view of race and racism because it seems more similar to the Irish experience and so much of what we consume is through an American lense. I also really loved that it fuelled such great discussions with others who’ve read it, which I guess was part of the point of it.
Would definitely recommend.
Graphic: Racism and Colonisation
Moderate: Ableism