Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Prečo sa už s bielymi nerozprávam o rase by Reni Eddo-Lodge

106 reviews

viviundworte's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

glittery_phoenix's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

This is an incredible, world-view shifting book that should be an essential read for every Brit. 

It conceptualises terms like race, racism, prejudice, colourism, intersectionality and institutional racism..... But it does so in a way that is not only digestible to the reader but creates a tangible mental map of how everything is connected. 

Touching on topics from history- the Atlantic slave trade to individual cases of assault, police brutality and injustice. This helps to explain the bigger picture of how things came to be, but also cultural turning points that had huge influence on the culture of Britian.

As someone from Liverpool I was very aware of our city's dark past with slavery, but the way Reni brings to life this history is brilliantly insightful while still rightfully difficult to learn about. 

I felt privileged to be taken on the journey of the author from her childlike innocence up to the empowering and beautifully eloquent woman she is at the time of writing. 

No review can do this justice, I can only implore you to read it. If it makes you uncomfortable then that is all the more reason to not shift your gaze. This book should be essential reading for every British person and anyone, of any race, who cares about understanding life experiences outside their own.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Trafficking, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation

_moonbread's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, and Xenophobia

emminkirjakasa's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

Tähän oli tosi vaikea kirjottaa arvostelua. Kirja herätti paljon ajatuksia ja tunteta. Kirjassa on älyttömän hyvin sanotettu eri tilanteita, sekä rasismin muuntautuminen orjuudesta tämän päivän oikeiston nousuun. 

Suosittelen tätä isosti jokaiselle valkoiselle. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Ableism, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and War

withlivjones's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

An informative and eye-opening book that covers every single base when it comes to racism in Britain, from black history to the many flaws in the system to how racism intersects with feminism. Why are we not taught any of this at school?? Essential reading for white people so we can be true allies to people of colour. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Slavery

Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Rape, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Classism

sandysmith's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A book every white person should read. As a person of white privilege, I thought myself a well-read, non racist moral person.  I still feel I'm well read but now feel much more educated, especially in the context of historical black history in the UK, my knowledge limited to US history taught in school. The title itself is very smack it in your face polarising, but I read it anyway. For me, the most interesting, thought-provoking, and challenging chapter was the one about feminism. Overall It was a sad emotional must-read book giving me a better understanding of the issues involved, and I hope making me a better informed ally.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

196books's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia

Moderate: Sexism

vicjp's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

keijuhylly's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

lindsaylhunter's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

After a lifetime of embodying difference, I have no desire to be equal. I want to deconstruct the structural power of a system that marked me out as different. I don't wish to be assimilated into the status quo. I want to be liberated from all negative assumptions that my characteristics bring. The onus is not on me to change. Instead, it's the world around me.

Impactful. Reni Eddo-Lodge knows how to balance her lived experiences with the facts of the matter. It's no mean feat to create something so readable when you're handling incendiary topics like race, class and gender. I particularly loved the middle chapters regarding intersectionality and (white) feminism.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Sexism