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#BlackLivesMatter: Eine Geschichte vom Überleben by asha bandele, Patrisse Khan-Cullors

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minnaobrien's review against another edition

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5.0

This book is difficult to read for exactly the same reasons it is so important.

gamecocksara's review against another edition

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5.0

outstanding. will be reading again & recommending to everyone I know.

jubear114's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

tld_21's review against another edition

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5.0

This book is amazing. 10/10 no notes. The perfect blend of using personal experience to discuss systemic issues. Will leave you angry seething with range and in awe ofnp the work organizers do. A favorite quote: “It was easy to understand that when race was a blatant factor, a friend says to me in a political discussion one afternoon. Jim Crow left no questions or confusion. But now that race isn’t written into the law, she says, look for the codes. Look for the codes language everywhere, she says. They rewrote the laws, but they didn’t rewrite white supremacy.” pg. 98-99

lynecia's review against another edition

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4.0

WOW.

bellastardust's review against another edition

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5.0

“it’s hard to be intimate with someone when you are being intimate with the world.”
there is something so special about reading a memoir, this was so intimate, and we need to hear those stories to heal and understand the world we live in.
i peeped some reviews when i was reading and man…. it’s so f’d up to me that some people will read someone’s life and their trauma and expect them to say this is “xyz-ism” at play. Patrisse Khan-Cullors did an amazing job at contextualizing policy and systemic issues while explaining her life.
I really appreciate Angela Davis’s forward too, adding more to how the label of terrorist and terrorism is used to discredit movements from here to Palestine.