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chronicacademia's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Classism, Gun violence, Hate crime, Grief, Violence, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Death, and Physical abuse
Minor: Homophobia, Sexism, and Misogyny
ttmahome's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Police brutality, Murder, Violence, and Racism
sarahsbookstacks's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Racism and Police brutality
Moderate: Slavery and Violence
readingelli's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Slavery
Moderate: Rape
alexisgarcia's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Classism, Grief, Gun violence, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail
deidrelj's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Violence, Colonisation, Police brutality, Racism, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, and Racial slurs
_toristorytime's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Racial slurs and Violence
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
theinfinitebookcase's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism and Violence
mirandyli's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Murder, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Grief, Gun violence, Slavery, Classism, Death, Police brutality, and Racism