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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
20 reviews
lola1212's review against another edition
4.25
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
5.0
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.
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
withlivjones's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Slavery and Racism
Moderate: Classism, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Rape, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Colonisation, Death, and Hate crime
sangsmiles's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Racism and Colonisation
narbine's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Misogyny, Police brutality, Violence, Hate crime, Sexism, Xenophobia, Classism, and Racism
gayelfboi's review against another edition
5.0
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
lief_'s review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Classism, Racism, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Racial slurs
Minor: Ableism
parasolcrafter's review against another edition
5.0
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
sakisreads's review against another edition
5.0
Now this is a PHENOMENAL book. It is hard hitting and informative. I had so many moments of anger and sadness throughout, but also a determination to address the prejudices I have in my own life. I have been struggling to find a sustainable way to address people’s racism, so Reni Eddo-Lodge talking about towards the end of the book that was impactful to me. I don’t feel that I have the eloquence to discuss what this book meant to me, so I’m including some of the text here that I really appreciated 😳
(Page 79) Opposing positive discrimination based on apprehensions about getting the best person for the job means inadvertently revealing what you think talent looks like, and the kind of person in which you think talent resides.
(Page 92) (White privilege) eases you into letting your guard down with white people, assured you’ll be taken seriously, but simultaneously not being surprised when a conversation highlights your differences against your white peers.
(Page 201) It’s worth questioning exactly who wins from the suggestion that the only working-class people worth of compassion are white, or that it’s black and ethnic minority people who are holding scant resources at the expense of white working-class people who are losing out.
A must read for anybody and everybody ✨
Graphic: Misogyny, Classism, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racism, Slavery, Colonisation, and Racial slurs
prettynerdy3's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Classism, Grief, Islamophobia, and Slavery