Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

10 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

sunn_bleach's review

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Hard to give it a review other than loving the style of point-counterpoint-countercounterpoint that informs one’s evolution and attachment to racist and antiracist ideas.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Racial slurs

Minor: Transphobia and Medical content

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

jesselopod's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

I found this book really hard to read to start with, but switching to the audiobook made it much easier to consume. A really nuanced look at racism in its many facets. I was frustrated that all the definitions included racism and anti racism in both the description and their titles, which made me mark it down a touch. I was also frustrated at the slights at people’s weights which very occasionally happened, it seemed really at odds at the inclusion messaging. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Slavery

Moderate: Police brutality, Xenophobia, Transphobia, Racial slurs, Medical content, and Colonisation

Minor: Cancer

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

lucinotlucy's review

challenging hopeful informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Colonisation, Racism, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Classism, Medical content, Police brutality, Trafficking, Homophobia, and Sexism

rieviolet's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I am really a beginner when it comes to reading about racism and other aspects of social justice, so this book was a very important read for me and helped me a lot to understand better, to learn more and to reflect, even when that meant difficult and painful reflections. 

Overall, I think the book was very accessible and easy to follow, although some of the ideas and themes included certainly need time to sink in and to be digested. 

I enjoyed the narrative choice of alternating  personal experiences and explanatory/reflective segments. It was really fascinating to follow the author's own journey and to see it reflected in the themes included in the chapter. 
I very much enjoyed the historical sections and I look forward to expanding my reading and my knowledge of these topics. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Bullying, Slavery, Cancer, Medical content, Sexism, Violence, Murder, and Colonisation

Minor: War, Transphobia, Homophobia, Gun violence, and Fatphobia

jellybean53's review

challenging dark hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Cancer, Medical content, Slavery, Xenophobia, Sexism, Police brutality, Violence, Gun violence, and Bullying

Minor: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Colonisation

leah_alexandra's review

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

3.5

This book was fine. I would say it's definitely on the introductory level in terms of books about racism/American racism, but lots of people are looking for that, and all power to them! This book is best appreciated as Kendi's internal examinations of his own journey grappling with the pervasiveness of racism and its intersections with other kinds of identity-based oppression as opposed to a guidebook for other people. There are two substantive points he makes that I take issue with: I think the chapter discussing racism within non-white groups has a misplaced assumption when it critiques the idea that "Black people can't be racist." It delves into the ways that Black folks (and other non-white folks) can perpetuate anti-Black racism through thoughts and actions, which certainly is a thing that happens. But I feel like that statement is better understood as people saying that POC cannot perpetuate racism against white people, not other POCs, because of how the power dynamics are structured. So I think that argument was a bit disingenuous. I also have been learning from folks in disability activism who critique the comparisons of racism to cancer or other diseases. I understand that Kendi was and is facing cancer in very personal ways, but the analogy of an illness that was not imposed by choice to a societal problem that very much was has its limitations. People do not choose to give others cancer (although there's an argument that racist and classist policies actually have given people cancer or higher rates) but many people make the choice every day to uphold racism. 

Small nit-pick: the definitions that introduce each chapter were a bit too schtick-y for me, and I thought they actually were a bit alienating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Colonisation, Hate crime, Medical content, Murder, Racism, and Racial slurs

jhpepper's review

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Mental illness, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, and Violence