Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

158 reviews

dreadspawn's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, Slavery, Colonisation, Violence, Racism, Police brutality, Murder, and Death

noura's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Gun violence

meghan1111's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality, Racial slurs, Rape, Violence, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Confinement, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Classism, Racism, Sexism, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Slavery, Death, and Hate crime

Minor: Child death

book2kel's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

Thought provoking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Racism

gossamer_lens's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Literally just amazing. Informative, emotional, profound and beautifully written. The book should speak for itself. The audiobook was 3 1/2 hours. At that length and with it's message everyone should read it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Racial slurs, Slavery, Violence, and Racism

Minor: Rape

jwartts's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Racism, Police brutality, Death, Murder, and Racial slurs

Minor: War, Grief, and Violence

crybabybea's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

Powerfully beautiful writing made more emotional as a love letter to the author's son. I feel honored that Ta-Nehisi Coates allowed me as a reader into his life and beliefs so intimately. 100% recommend the audiobook, to hear his writing in his own voice is incredible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Gun violence, Violence, Hate crime, Police brutality, and Racism

emmapaigereads's review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

katiew221's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

Worth reading, worth listening to, and worth thinking about. Especially if the topic of race and racism makes you uncomfortable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, Racial slurs, and Police brutality

ashlightgrayson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This was such a beautiful peace of work. I have always wanted to, but have never read, a work by Coates before this. All I can say is that I was missing out. His writing is poetic yet impactful. I do recommend the audiobook format as it is read by the author and that format really captures the emotion behind every written word in this work. The narrative is told from the perspective of a father speaking to his son. There is so much love here, but it also a warning. A warning to a son about how society will treat him based on his skin tone. It is a history lesson of how throughout history black bodies have been abused and used. It elaborates on the current injustices that exist in our society based on a historical bias that has continued to be perpetuated. We continue to pay the consequences of the ignorance and prejudice that has been passed down from the rich white elite in the United States and around the world. I don't own a physical copy of this book, but I definitely plan on getting one so I can reread this and annotate. One of the best reading experiences I had this year. 5/5 stars for me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism