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nebulous_tide's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Racism and Police brutality
Moderate: Classism, Death, Hate crime, and Slavery
Minor: Child abuse, Rape, and Homophobia
torturedreadersdept's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Racial slurs, Death, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Hate crime, Gun violence, Dysphoria, Confinement, Xenophobia, Violence, Torture, Trafficking, Police brutality, Slavery, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Racism, Physical abuse, Murder, Genocide, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Grief, and Cultural appropriation
meghan1111's review against another edition
5.0
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
gossamer_lens's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Murder, Racial slurs, Slavery, Violence, and Racism
Minor: Rape
readingelli's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Slavery
Moderate: Rape
bruhmantics's review
5.0
Graphic: Racism
Minor: Rape
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
indeedithappens's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Colonisation, Death of parent, Police brutality, War, Abandonment, Bullying, Child death, Physical abuse, Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Murder, Racial slurs, Violence, Child abuse, Classism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Gaslighting, Rape, and Xenophobia
michelle_l_d's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Colonisation, Rape, and Child abuse
farleighelse's review
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Police brutality
Moderate: Physical abuse
Minor: Rape