Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Warum ich nicht länger mit Weißen über Hautfarbe spreche by Reni Eddo-Lodge

34 reviews

lola1212's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Colonisation, Fatphobia, Sexism, Drug use, Rape, Ableism, Addiction, Abortion, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Pedophilia, and Slavery

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

_moonbread's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Racism, and Slavery

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: Racism, Racial slurs, and Slavery

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Ableism, and Rape

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: Slavery and Racism

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

zaracampbell's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

A must-read for any white person; incredibly enlightening and provides an opportunity for contextualising our own relation (and responsibility) to racism. Understanding the intersection of race and gender, race and class, etc is also paramount to breaking down the institutional structures that serve to harm people of colour. 

Issues with systematic racism in the UK must be spotlighted: our education system asks us to look to the American civil rights movement to study the impacts of racism, distancing ourselves from any possibility that racism could have been so prevalent in our country. 

Reni writes very powerfully, unapologetically and with conviction. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Islamophobia and Slavery

timetotalkbeauty's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Cultural appropriation, and Racism

gayelfboi's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Classism, Xenophobia, Grief, Genocide, Colonisation, Slavery, Police brutality, and Murder

Moderate: Trafficking, Islamophobia, Violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Murder, Sexual violence, Sexism, Rape, Mass/school shootings, and Forced institutionalization

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative

5.0

i dont really have anything to say about a book like this, honestly. its something you can only learn from, rather than have sort of criticism on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Hate crime, Homophobia, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Violence, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Racism, Genocide, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Murder, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Death, and Deportation

mengzhenreads's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Super informative, well written, and just really fantastic. I really loved learning more about Britain's role in the slave trade, since I feel like it's something that isn't really as discussed as the American side. Super engaging and bold, this book calls for change and I'm absolutely here for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs, Death, Murder, and Rape

Minor: Ableism, Misogyny, and Sexism