Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

A Liberdade é uma Luta Constante by Angela Y. Davis

47 reviews

createandchaos's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle is a must read for those who want to understand the genocide occurring in Palestine and how it effects the world as well. Angela Davis explains how the history of anti-blackness in America and apartheid in Israel is a reflection of the ongoing western imperial project while opening the door for independent research. History can't be forgotten because it intersects in so many paths. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, Genocide, and War

Moderate: Slavery and Death

gatorskulls's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Hate crime, and Racism

chronicacademia's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Hate crime, Rape, Sexism, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Slavery, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Classism, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Racism, Physical abuse, and Police brutality

fromthefoxhole's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

So I listened to the audiobook, and let me say up front: Angela Davis could read me her grocery list and I'd enjoy it. Every word is measured, pronunciations were clearly studied in advance, and her timbre is warm and authoritative. 

4.5 - half star removed mostly because this has multiple chapters that are speeches she has given at various conferences and events. In a few cases I've either watched the speech on YouTube or read it as a one off, and some of the material overlaps in a way that makes it slightly less impactful overall. I think it could also have used a final chapter that acted as a final summarization/call to further education at the very least. 

Despite this slight grievance, I think this book does well in its undertaking to relate struggle across location, gender, race, religion, nationality, or whatever divides humanity might face. Davis utilizes the wealth of own-voices books, movements across history, and anecdotes from her own past to present to the reader a framework within which we can find our foothold as activists. She speaks on trans and queer liberation, the occupation of Palestine, the ongoing struggle of Black people and people of color in the US. She briefly touches on disability rights and mental health institutionalization as well. She never shies away from the fact that there might be more points of intersectionality than previously understood, and I think that openness serves the reader well in providing external context to her works. 

Anyway, I love Angela Davis. I've added so many books from her references here to my own reading list, and I'm excited to get cracking on those.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, Deportation, Transphobia, Racism, Sexual harassment, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Classism, Sexism, Mental illness, and Hate crime

nineinchnails's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

slightly repetitive but a really informative read that gave me optimism and hope at a time where i really need it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Death, Police brutality, and War

Minor: Slavery, Transphobia, and Sexual assault

jessereadsthings's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Hate crime, Police brutality, and Classism

Minor: Homophobia, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Islamophobia, Ableism, and Antisemitism

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.75

While I agree with some of the other reviews I saw stating that the information at times felt repetitive in a way that a normally composed book might not tolerate, I appreciate the way that this mimics the title and thesis of the book. The information, repeated, reminded, emphasized, follows the pattern of the shuffling dance of freedom. A step to the right, a step to the left. A large step forward, a smaller step back. To hear this choreography in Angela Davis’s own voice made it feel incendiary and tangible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Hate crime, and Police brutality

Moderate: Transphobia

dragongirl271's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, War, Gun violence, Police brutality, Sexual violence, and Violence

booksbeyondthebinary's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Misogyny, and Genocide

Moderate: Police brutality, Death, and War

Minor: Slavery, Transphobia, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

ofbooksandechos's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Racism

Moderate: Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Classism, and Police brutality

Minor: Slavery, Sexual violence, and Transphobia