Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

20 reviews

jillaay_h's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Cancer, Colonisation, Gun violence, Homophobia, Medical content, Racial slurs, Hate crime, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Xenophobia, and Police brutality

blakeandbooks's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is a book I have had on my radar for a while, and I’m glad I finally picked it up. I really enjoyed the side notes the author gives throughout the book of edits he’s made to the original text and why. I think it’s a reminder that we all have the ability to make a conscious effort to shift our focus and thoughts when we may not be totally correct. I am wanting to continue to learn, grown, change, adapt, and whatever else I need to do in order to be a better person with all of the people around me and around the world. Being conscious of how I could be and have been racially biased in my thoughts and decisions and understanding that I can continue to make an effort to be better!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Cancer

Moderate: Homophobia, Hate crime, Transphobia, and Police brutality

lindsey_bear's review

challenging reflective tense medium-paced

3.5

I found this book challenging but informative. It is a genre I’m not usually engaging with, and it was nice reading about the experience of Black Americans through an informed and honest eye. The only reason I rate this lower is the emphasis on terminology..I understand the importance of getting these topics right, but I would have appreciated less picking apart of the language and more on his lived experience. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Racism, Classism, Hate crime, Homophobia, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Rape

tiernanhunter's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Slavery, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Medical content, Racism, Violence, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Cancer, Colonisation, Classism, Gun violence, Racial slurs, and Sexism

emflipspages's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Racial slurs, and Cancer

Moderate: Transphobia, Homophobia, Hate crime, Sexism, and Police brutality

alyssa_s10's review

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

I read this book as part of the ABC book challenge. I am glad I picked this one.  It is a must read and I couldn't put it down. I love how he frames his talking points and his thesis.

I liked the ending  allegory of racism to cancer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Hate crime, Police brutality, and Sexism

Minor: Transphobia

anniereads221's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Police brutality, Murder, Islamophobia, Grief, Cancer, Ableism, Xenophobia, Transphobia, Antisemitism, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Mass/school shootings, Homophobia, Gun violence, Hate crime, Death, and Colonisation

brookey8888's review

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

I found this very interesting and thought provoking. I learned a lot. That being said I don’t know if I fully agree with some of the things mentioned. I am a white person and I don’t think you can be fully racist towards white people(obviously you can be hateful and mean), but I do think that will turn people off from reading this book because people don’t believe that. I do think it was interesting and I understand why he said that. Know this isn’t really a how to guide on how to be anti racist, it’s more of a here’s things that are racist and then what is considered anti racist. So if you listen to that you will learn how to be more anti racist. I do recommend this because I did learn a lot and I think it would benefit people to read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Homophobia, Bullying, Hate crime, and Racism

seawarrior's review

hopeful informative reflective tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Colonisation, Hate crime, Rape, Bullying, Cancer, Classism, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Misogyny, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Transphobia, and Xenophobia

bluejayreads's review against another edition

challenging informative

5.0

This book is intense and absolutely bursting with ideas about racism and anti-racism that I’ve never heard before. 

In many ways it feels like a topical memoir, as the ideas contained are illustrated and expanded through the author’s life in a mostly-chronological order. Mr. Kendi discusses his struggles with external, systemic, and internalized racism, and to a lesser degree homophobia and sexism, and now reckoning with those forces led to these ideas. 

This book heavily emphasizes definitions, with each topical chapter opening with a definition of a term. At first I thought that was kind of silly, because of course I know what racism is, otherwise why would I have picked up this book? But Mr. Kendi uses these definitions – and he defines these words much differently than I would have, and for good reasons which he explains – to tackle everything from intersectionality to the idea that Black people can’t be racist. The ideas he presents are radically different from most of what I’ve heard about race and racism, and the difference is eye-opening. He makes it clear why most movements against racism today have accomplished little to nothing. 

In the early hours of reading this book, I was afraid this would have to go in my “the title promised me actionable things to do but it lied to me” pile, as it was focusing more on explaining what racism and anti-racism were more than how to be an anti-racist. But it gets there. Mr. Kendi wants to make sure we’re on the same page concerning the ideas he’s presenting, but once he’s sure of that he digs into the practical, actionable stuff. And don’t think you can skip over the first sections and go straight to the practical stuff, because the actionable items won’t make half as much sense if you don’t have the context built up in the earlier parts of the book. 

This book is amazingly valuable. The perspectives on racism and anti-racism are much different than mainstream ideas about race and racial activism (or at least way different from the twenty-teens Tumblr social justice ideas where I was introduced to these things). I feel like my mind has been expanded, and of course I always appreciate actionable steps. This book and the radical ideas inside are absolutely worth reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexism, Hate crime, and Cancer

Minor: Racial slurs