Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo

19 reviews

lancemama's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Bullying, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Cultural appropriation, Slavery, Classism, Colonisation, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Violence, Racism, Racial slurs, and Police brutality

Moderate: Cursing, Antisemitism, Gaslighting, Hate crime, and Islamophobia

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

psammophilus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

This book was intense and also such a clear description of the modern western world. This is not a critical analysis, or a textbook, but the kind of nonfiction that shines a light on things that can be hard to talk about and hard to process.

Having said that, I'm going to recommend it to pretty much everyone I know.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Violence, Suicide, and Xenophobia

leahp87's review against another edition

challenging informative

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Death, Suicide, Racism, Racial slurs, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Suicide and Violence

bookcasey's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense

5.0

Required reading for anyone in the United States.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Violence, War, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Genocide, and Colonisation

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Suicide attempt, Murder, Islamophobia, Hate crime, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Mass/school shootings, and Homophobia

huckleberryrk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Sexism, and Racism

Moderate: Suicide, Xenophobia, and Violence

perpetualpages's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

CWs: References to sexual harassment, pedophilia, and sexual violence; discussions of white supremacy, racism, police brutality, hate crimes, and (reported) racial and sexual slurs; explorations of genocide, anti-Indigenous violence, war crimes, and chattel slavery; exploration of misogyny, deportation, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and antisemitism; some descriptions of online harassment, domestic terrorism, suicide, and gun violence

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, and Misogyny

Moderate: Islamophobia, Antisemitism, Gun violence, Police brutality, Slavery, and Hate crime

Minor: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Suicide

maxgdy's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Sexism, Antisemitism, Police brutality, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Rape, Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, and Xenophobia

rachrreads's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

While I agree with many of the arguments in this book on white male supremacy in America, I found the flow of the book to be hard to follow. This book really just felt like a bunch of essays thrown together with the main points of the argument at the beginning and end.

I learned quite a bit through all these stories/essays though, so that really helped the rating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Colonisation, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, and Xenophobia

junefish's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Racism

Moderate: Ableism and Colonisation

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism

aqtbenz's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Murder, Hate crime, Gun violence, Death, Antisemitism, and Xenophobia