Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones

35 reviews

lmfry's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Medical trauma, Genocide, Police brutality, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Cultural appropriation, Trafficking, Slavery, Rape, Racism, Torture, and Murder

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Gaslighting, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Islamophobia, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Child abuse, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

alphawolfe13's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

It is an informative and enlightening book. In my opinion the writing can be a little repetitive to the point I feel like I'm reading previous chapters. I would have preferred a chronological dive into events and how they shaped history over bouncing from topic to topic. Otherwise, I'm excited to use this in my classroom in order to better help students understand the black experience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Rape, Bullying, and Slavery

Moderate: Suicide, Cursing, Torture, Racial slurs, and Racism

frawst_disasta_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

I did find parts of this book dragged when I already knew something.  While I enjoyed how the book was laud out, I think I found it jarring on occasion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Slavery

Moderate: Hate crime, Death, Gun violence, Murder, Colonisation, Sexual assault, Slavery, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Sexual violence

chillinmcvillian's review

This book was really heavy and effecting me in a way where I felt hopeless. The information is sad and I started wondering, how can we benefit from this information when all odds are against us. I would read again in the future but I wasn’t in the right space to read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Slavery, Physical abuse, and Domestic abuse

chelscola's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Murder, Slavery, Violence, Colonisation, Hate crime, Physical abuse, and Police brutality

mentalish's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Slavery, Racism, Sexual assault, Violence, Torture, Rape, Trafficking, and Racial slurs

tlaynejones's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Slavery, Medical trauma, Medical content, Murder, Religious bigotry, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Classism, Police brutality, Rape, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Gaslighting, Deportation, Cultural appropriation, Death, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Violence, Sexual violence, and Torture

lindseyhall44's review

relaxing

5.0

“For generations we have believed in this country with faith it did not deserve. Black people have seen the worst in America yet somehow, we still believe in its best.”- The 1619 project 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Racial slurs, Torture, Slavery, Racism, Medical trauma, Hate crime, Police brutality, Murder, Death, Kidnapping, Vomit, Rape, Trafficking, and War

readandfindout's review

challenging informative medium-paced

4.5

Style/writing: 4.5 stars
Themes: 4.5 stars
Perspective: 4.5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Hate crime, Torture, War, Physical abuse, Death, Murder, Colonisation, Violence, Sexual violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

guinness74's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

Anything that I would write about this book would grossly underestimate and, truthfully, tarnish the reality of its importance. It would be impossible to read this book and not see that Black America (and make no mistake that there is definitely a different nation for Black people) has been denied, again and again, the right, the ability, the power, to make itself equal on any terms that White America sets forth. More often than not, it is White America that places the stumbling blocks, rather than the stepping stones. I urge you to read this book, particularly if you are White, so that you understand the whys and hows of Black America and the inability of this nation to say that it has achieved anywhere near racial equality. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Slavery, and Violence