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gcramer3's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
4.0
Informative and well-organized, though repetitive and dry. Pick it up ready to learn!
adeltron's review against another edition
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.25
i finished this book on my second try. the first two chapters feel a little bit activisty in language and tone and turned me off from the book the first time cause i was looking for something academic to stretch my understanding not reinforce it. however once i got to chapter 3 (about the policing in school) I knew i was in the right book cause i was learning things that i did not know and need to change immediately. there is still a lot of reinforcement of truths i already hold in this book if your coming at it from the progressive lense that i am. but he does give some detail on paths forward out of this mess. spoiler alert, they are all very high minded and undetailed. the path forward will be a long one...
juliaarciga's review against another edition
3.0
This book was informative but I can’t say it was a joy to read. The structure of each chapter is the same, lending the book to feel really repetitive. The chapters cover *a lot* of information and give you tons of tiny bits of context, sacrificing fleshing certain topics out or sufficiently answering the “why” on some of the points made.
I also found what seems to be a huge misinterpretation of one of the supreme court cases mentioned in the book. I’m no expert but the conclusions of the case stated in the book were wildly different than summations of the case and legal analysis I found online. This is super minor but it begs the question: What else in the book is overstated or unfairly characterized?
It also gets very preachy towards the end.
TLDR: This book was informative and I learned some new info but I almost wish I didn’t pick it up.
I also found what seems to be a huge misinterpretation of one of the supreme court cases mentioned in the book. I’m no expert but the conclusions of the case stated in the book were wildly different than summations of the case and legal analysis I found online. This is super minor but it begs the question: What else in the book is overstated or unfairly characterized?
It also gets very preachy towards the end.
TLDR: This book was informative and I learned some new info but I almost wish I didn’t pick it up.
icantcontroltheweather's review against another edition
3.0
Overall I liked the topics this book covered. However I do think it would have benefited greatly by adding personal antidotes. I feel like because it was so packed full of facts and statistics throughout it got pretty dry in some places.