Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action by Vicky Osterweil

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webb_beb's review

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

The best non-fiction book I’ve read this year. Osterweil offers both a philosophical defense of looting (of course) as well as a critique of “non-violence” and it’s station in the American imaginary. She weaves these arguments into a thorough but engaging retelling of anti-Black violence in American history from the slave trade to the Ferguson uprising. Neither solely history nor philosophy the author’s deliberate personal presence transforms this into something of a manifesto- a construction of the past to serve as a guide for the present. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Police brutality, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Racism