Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

30 reviews

leelaamanda's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Racism, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Police brutality, Child death, Classism, Grief, Medical content, Hate crime, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Slavery, and Sexism

Moderate: Infertility, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Body shaming, Violence, Sexual violence, and Infidelity

biobeetle's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Classism, Racism, Sexual harassment, Racial slurs, Sexism, Misogyny, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Hate crime, Xenophobia, Miscarriage, Violence, Abortion, War, Police brutality, Murder, Gun violence, and Infertility

Minor: Pregnancy

mookisbooks's review

challenging sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Child death, Suicide, Sexual violence, and Slavery

jonezzzing's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Xenophobia, Slavery, Classism, Racism, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Suicide

Minor: Abortion and Adult/minor relationship

stevia333k's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

i was thinking 4.75 stars due to how other books have made better citations to the points brought up, but i decided to round it up to 5 stars because so much of this holds up over 4 decades later!

i listened to readings & TTS of this book. it's from 1981 (such as we don't need to refer to fiction to call out paternalism anymore. we have books like "pushout" & "they were her property". that being said the reference to fiction on that point made me realize that history was conflated with whatever white supremacist bourgeois patriarchs allowed.) so some parts are outdated, but a ton of it holds up, partly because a lot of the white supremacist dynamics within feminist movements hadn't changed. like chapter 2 on white women organizing having paternalism problems articulated the problems i'm having right now to a tee, and the other chapters gave me information about corners i need to back out of (3 point turn).  this book is considered a foundation for intersectionality & uses the triple jeopardy model. basically this is a book that a lot of the people i listen to have read.

as i was reading this book i was also listening to "rest is resistance" by tricia hersey, which is giving me a lot of insight on abolitionism & preventing burnout & self-forgiveness.  i mention this because this book also critiques bourgeois praxis, and that's important because to say the least of it the labor theory of value, business expansion & imperialist expansion mean the wage gap will exist as long as there is capitalism because otherwise employers wouldn't be able to figure out ranking among themselves.

this was such a good book, i wish i had been given this book instead of being offered "ain't i a woman" by bell hooks & "luna" back in elementary school. like seriously, the covers & fictionality scared me on some of those, but omg. like my transfeminism came from me being 2 years old & in reconciling why racism is bad & feminism is good figured out that the genitalia is in fact a policing stereotype as other gender stereotypes, hence girlhood is separate from genitalia, and this book was speaking to that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Child abuse, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, War, Abortion, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Gaslighting, Genocide, Ableism, Classism, Physical abuse, Slavery, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual harassment, Stalking, and Torture

kenzierobyn's review

challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Murder, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Abortion

tenori's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Religious bigotry, Rape, Sexism, Violence, Hate crime, Murder, Death, Confinement, Sexual violence, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Slavery

jaiari12's review

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racial slurs, Sexism, Classism, Colonisation, Sexual harassment, Death, Sexual violence, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Abortion, Racism, Misogyny, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Xenophobia, Infertility, and Slavery

Moderate: Ableism and Domestic abuse

cranedphoenix's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

4.5

I read Mama's Baby Papa's Maybe before this and I feel like this and that read go well together

The warnings of discussion of rape are no joke and definitely were kinda triggering despite knowing a lot of this history

Chapter 12 also seems as an important note during these times

The last chapter did feel off to me for the ending of the book 

A good read was recommended by another black person so glad I listened to them, knowing a lot of history but reading some new quotes and info got me riled up (mostly because of racism obviously)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, and Slavery

Moderate: Abortion, Sexism, Misogyny, and Racial slurs

dnyria's review

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

that being said, this further pushed my disdain toward white feminists. sorry 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual violence, Slavery, and Racial slurs