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How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice by Jemar Tisby
2 reviews
mikaelaandherbooks's review
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
A short book filled to the brim with an important message on and practical actions towards reaching racial and social justice. Also great biblical knowledge applied to the topic of discussion!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Death and Slavery
booksnooksandglory's review against another edition
informative
5.0
I'm still figuring out my rating system for nonfiction since I don't read much of it but I think this book deserves 5 stars because of the amount of information it gives and how it is shown, and it delivers what it promises.
This book, in simple terms, sets out to teach How To Fight Racism, in more detailed terms in talks and introduces the A.R.C. of racial justice. It's divided into three parts Awareness, Relationships, and Commitment.
I found Relationships to be underdeveloped in terms of tangible and insightful tools to achieve the goals set out at the beginning of the part. It still had the best components of the books which were factual examples with direct quotes and statistics regarding the formation and current form of the US with respect to relations and segregation.
My personal favorite was the part of Commitment, more specifically chapter 8. I thought some advice from this chapter weren't directly useful to me (I'm not a US citizen) I think they can be easily adapted to my actions toward my government with the appropriate research. Either way, I found the information to be very precise and explained with clarity.
The narration was greatly done, even if I hadn't checked before I think I could've known it was the own author narrating because the passion and the understanding of the subject showed through the tone.
Though I digest information best through audio and the narration was great I think I could benefit from the physical copy. There were so many quotes, from the bible, from historical figures, and from the author I wish I could highlight light and bring it with me everywhere.
Now for the Christianity aspect, I'm not a Christian but I've grown up in a Christian environment, both social and governmental. I don't have the highest appreciation for the religion itself, and that was definitely highlighted in this book. I don't think it would be fair to lower my rating on account of this because I should've assessed myself better before requesting the ALC. However, I think I should mention it for people who have complicated relationships with Christianity or religion as a whole. I was looking forward to the educational aspects on the matter, the quotes and the examples the racism and reparations different churches, I loved listening about how the bible states diversity and I do recommend educating yourself on the things that affect your environment (Christianity ) so everything that was educational was welcomed.
*Thank you to Net Galley for providing me with the ALC of this book.*
This book, in simple terms, sets out to teach How To Fight Racism, in more detailed terms in talks and introduces the A.R.C. of racial justice. It's divided into three parts Awareness, Relationships, and Commitment.
I found Relationships to be underdeveloped in terms of tangible and insightful tools to achieve the goals set out at the beginning of the part. It still had the best components of the books which were factual examples with direct quotes and statistics regarding the formation and current form of the US with respect to relations and segregation.
My personal favorite was the part of Commitment, more specifically chapter 8. I thought some advice from this chapter weren't directly useful to me (I'm not a US citizen) I think they can be easily adapted to my actions toward my government with the appropriate research. Either way, I found the information to be very precise and explained with clarity.
The narration was greatly done, even if I hadn't checked before I think I could've known it was the own author narrating because the passion and the understanding of the subject showed through the tone.
Though I digest information best through audio and the narration was great I think I could benefit from the physical copy. There were so many quotes, from the bible, from historical figures, and from the author I wish I could highlight light and bring it with me everywhere.
Now for the Christianity aspect, I'm not a Christian but I've grown up in a Christian environment, both social and governmental. I don't have the highest appreciation for the religion itself, and that was definitely highlighted in this book. I don't think it would be fair to lower my rating on account of this because I should've assessed myself better before requesting the ALC. However, I think I should mention it for people who have complicated relationships with Christianity or religion as a whole. I was looking forward to the educational aspects on the matter, the quotes and the examples the racism and reparations different churches, I loved listening about how the bible states diversity and I do recommend educating yourself on the things that affect your environment (Christianity ) so everything that was educational was welcomed.
*Thank you to Net Galley for providing me with the ALC of this book.*
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism
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