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deidrelj's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Violence, Colonisation, Police brutality, Racism, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, and Racial slurs
estanza's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Death
_toristorytime's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Racial slurs and Violence
aqtbenz's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Murder, Racism, and Racial slurs
audc's review against another edition
3.75
It’s informative of Coates’ experience and life as a black man in America which is packed with a lot of fear that then turns into anger.
While I agree with the sentiment of Dreamers in America and a majority being white or wanting to be white (ie. having power and authority to inflict destruction), I do not agree with how inflated, fatalist, galactic, racism is portrayed. While it has become cultural and institutionalized -integrated- I do not agree with Coates’ fatalistic view. He ends with the struggle and more of a call for ‘fight for yourself’ instead of strive as a collective.
For this, this book transmits fear and morphs it into anger. As he doesn’t spend nearly as much time on the solution as describing the problem. I can understand where and how he got to his conclusion, but there is a danger in generalising.
Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Slavery, Racial slurs, Rape, Blood, Physical abuse, and Violence
bookish_bry's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Death, Racial slurs, and Gun violence
gilberik's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Death, Murder, and Police brutality
steffilietzke's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Racial slurs, Gun violence, Police brutality, Grief, and Racism
Minor: Alcohol
mirandyli's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Murder, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Grief, Gun violence, Slavery, Classism, Death, Police brutality, and Racism
sharrikloves's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, and Death