Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

3 reviews

robertgetch's review

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

The book does a great job outlining de jure (or, by law) segregation of African American/Black people in various policies created, enforced and practiced by the U.S. government and/or local governments. The book to me was very engaging the whole way through though it is detailed and deep and some may consider it dry. I think, for me, it was not dry because I spent time reflecting on the people impacted and so I thought of it somewhat of a sad story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Xenophobia, Hate crime, and Slavery

brycestevenwilley's review

challenging dark informative slow-paced

4.0

A very dense, very important book. It has a lot of sources, and while it kinda seems like it's just example after example of segregation, that's because that's what happened, and this book's purpose is just to document that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Violence

Moderate: Xenophobia and Classism

Minor: Antisemitism

random19379's review

challenging hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Confinement, Colonisation, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Police brutality