Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

27 reviews

cvanwerven's review

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs

klor's review

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

In a trip to California about 4 years ago, a friend asked me, "What age did you realize that other people existed (outside of your own life)?" That was a constant reminder throughout reading the first half of the book and throughout, especially as Rankine details the various microagressions that happen in her daily life and slowly expanding that into the larger scale things such as biases and police brutality. Sometimes we just want to be seen, but properly.

While the scripts in the middle of the book left a lot to be desired, the writing points out a clear picture in between the various vignettes of what it's like to live as a black person in today's world. I'd love to reread this book in the future as I think it's something that grows on you with time.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Death, Police brutality, and Racism

viaviaggi's review

challenging informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Slavery

ablaine's review

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Police brutality

julianeedscaffeine's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.5

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Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Cursing

Moderate: Violence

lara_bk's review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, and Hate crime

Moderate: Gun violence and Violence

Minor: Death

evergreenreader's review

challenging emotional informative sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, and Racial slurs

five's review

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Minor: Body shaming, Death, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Violence

sariion's review

challenging emotional reflective

4.5

To POC readers: try and read this on a good mental health day, because it can be heavy.

Definitely an incredible work. The first couple pages are a bit weak, but the remainder of the book is wonderfully written. The author writes about a lot of micro-aggressions and daily adversities which are common to the lives of so many people of color. It definitely prompted quite a bit of reflecting on painful experiences on my part. 

A challenging read for sure. Really enjoyed the writing of the 'scripts' in the latter sections of the book. Extremely unique yet powerful. This work is the embodiment of sincerity.

Feel like this is objectively a 5, but I'm rating it 4.5 for now as I had a bit of difficulty understanding portions. I'd love to return to this book and reread it when I'm older and hopefully more intelligent. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

ladywildflower's review

dark reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Racial slurs