Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

31 reviews

penofpossibilities's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Hate crime, Grief, Police brutality, Racism, Murder, and Gun violence

prettynerdy3's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Classism, Grief, Islamophobia, and Slavery

heisiiri's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.25

Super important and still very relevant! Each section serves its purpose and together they form a clear message. I especially liked the section about race and class.

I hope more books like this get the spotlight in the future. This one is UK focused, and though I could definitely draw plenty of parallels to things that happen in Finland, I'd love to read something like this about the perspectives of POC living in the Nordic countries.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia

Moderate: Police brutality and Misogyny

samdalefox's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

3.5

Renni Eddo-Lodge provides a good primer and accessible book on institutional racism embedded into our UK history and culture. It is a good entry point for anyone wanting to become actively anti-racist. Anecdotal evidence for this, my mum has bought a copy of the book to read! A 57 year old sheltered white woman is open to self-learning and I'm proud of her. It seems to have a wide appeal to the people that need to read this... white people.

Main con: the larger points on intersectionality (particuarly around that of class) I found to be overly simplistic, probably because I've read more around the subject - I'd recommend reading Bell Hooks and Angela Saini, plus Eddo Lodge credits the coiner of the term intersectionaliy Dr  Kimberlé Crenshaw. I also found this slow to read as an audiobook, so I read it at 1.5x speed. Main pro: It gives a UK perspective with UK examples. This may be obvious but it's important to highlight. A common theme in our culture is the ignorant view that racism isn't a problem here because it doesn't look exactly like that what we see in American culture, news, and anti-racist literature.  American civil rights history often eclipses the UK one. The UK absolutely does have racism and a rich civil rights history and Eddo-Lodge does well to introduce many contemporary examples across England that should shake up newcomers to the topic. My favourite quote on this subject: "Faced with collective forgetting, we must fight to remember".
 
Ultimately, although I personally didn't find the way it was written very engaging, I have learnt more and I greatly value how accessible the book is, I genuinely think it will engage a wider audience that we need to become engaged in anti-racism. The author recognises that racism is structural, that structures are made out of people and thus are an amplification of personal prejudices. I have hope that this book starts that process by challenging and educating the UK population on our personal prejudices. 
 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racial slurs, Police brutality, Racism, Hate crime, and Classism

uhm_kai's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I think everybody should read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Classism, and Colonisation

Moderate: Violence, Pregnancy, Sexism, Police brutality, and Classism

lish_e's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Sexism, and Hate crime

Moderate: Colonisation, Pedophilia, Islamophobia, and Sexual violence

Minor: Mental illness and Ableism

josxphinchen's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Slavery, and Police brutality

meganamelia's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Misogyny

Moderate: Classism, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Cultural appropriation, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Islamophobia, Murder, and Violence

softgalaxy's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

A really illuminating read on racism in the UK. It’s definitely a primer as I’m sure Eddo-Lodge could have wrote more on each of the chapters.

Reading it in 2021 was eye-opening as I remember how different anti-racism was treated in the media 5-10 years ago. As Eddo-Lodge rightly says, there has been a renaissance in societal consciousness regarding whiteness and Blackness. It’s been wonderful to see, but there is a long way to go.

Every white person should read this 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Violence

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

gabiabudhabi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

Must read!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Murder, Sexual assault, Violence, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Physical abuse, and Hate crime