Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

50 reviews

julied's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Slavery, and Torture

annabunce's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Read this book. Isabel Wilkerson does a incredible job framing and explaining the American caste system within the context of other caste systems to fully illustrate the history of slavery and slavery's long lasting impact on Black Americans. I feel like reading this book I realized just how successful the American narrative has been at downplaying the horrors and systemic normalized racism faced by Black Americans. Definitely the kind of book that will shift your thinking and make you look at your world in a new way. This pulled back the curtain and made me consider Canada's own caste system in a whole new light. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Violence, Trafficking, Suicide, Slavery, Sexual violence, Rape, Police brutality, Murder, Medical trauma, Incest, Gun violence, Grief, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Antisemitism, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, and Child abuse

caroline_hutchison's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Murder, Racism, and Slavery

thebespectacledbookworm's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Violence, Antisemitism, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, and Slavery

Minor: Torture, Rape, Police brutality, and Murder

walrus's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, Genocide, Slavery, and Rape

letmetakea_shelfie_'s review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, and Torture

mignonne's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Antisemitism, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Slavery, and Torture

glains's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime and Racism

Moderate: Genocide, Slavery, and Antisemitism

miascupoftea's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

It’s a very dark book, but definitely something everyone who can push through the heavy parts should read. very informative and great insights 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia

joremmons's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book is a wonderful mix of well-researched information, historical storytelling, and personal anecdotes that form a complete picture of the American Caste System that is powerful enough for a scholar to read but easy enough to understand for a layman. The points of comparison between the Indian Caste System, Nazi Germany, and the American slave trade/subsequent fallout draw parallels that seem unrelated but form a clear picture of dangerous (but accepted) power structures.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Trafficking, Torture, Slavery, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Misogyny, Hate crime, Gun violence, Genocide, Emotional abuse, and Death