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madzie's review
4.0
Graphic: Racism and Emotional abuse
eve81's review
5.0
Graphic: Hate crime, Violence, Murder, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Racism, and Misogyny
hunterlovesneilperry's review
4.5
As a white person, I do try to put my reading where I would not usually, because you don’t see them a lot. I did really enjoy it, and of course there are times when you sit there and go «I will always be shielded from this.» But I think being aware of those and this and all of it, will perhaps make it easier for those of privilege to listen to the ones wothiut.
Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism
krhe's review
4.0
Graphic: Racism and Police brutality
peachani's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs
savvylit's review
5.0
As I tend to do when reviewing poetry, let me leave you with a fragment of Rankine's own words:
"You are you even before you grow into understanding you are not anyone, worthless, not worth you. Even as your own weight insists you are here, fighting off the weight of nonexistence. And still this life parts your lids, you see you seeing your extending hand as a falling wave— I they he she we you turn only to discover the encounter to be alien to this place. Wait. The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you. The opening, between you and you, occupied, zoned for an encounter, given the histories of you and you— And always, who is this you? The start of you, each day, a presence already— Hey you—"
Graphic: Gaslighting, Hate crime, Murder, Police brutality, and Racism
readbycarina's review
4.25
Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Murder
Moderate: Misogyny
solenodon's review
5.0
Graphic: Racism and Police brutality
klor's review
3.75
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.
Moderate: Racial slurs, Death, Police brutality, and Racism
viaviaggi's review
5.0
Graphic: Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Racism
Minor: Slavery