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brenaudcreative's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Police brutality and Violence
daniellekat's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Racism and Police brutality
Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Murder
Minor: Classism, Gun violence, Homophobia, Child death, Violence, Islamophobia, Colonisation, and Antisemitism
emma_sky's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia
Moderate: Gun violence and Murder
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic
l1brarygirl's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Police brutality, Bullying, Racism, Violence, Antisemitism, Murder, Slavery, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Classism, and Gun violence
Moderate: Homophobia, War, Racial slurs, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Blood
Minor: Cursing
sujanyar's review against another edition
4.25
Highlights super important topics but I felt the last few chapters rushed and felt a little jumpy and not as smooth flowing.
Otherwise enjoyable!
Moderate: Racism
jaduhluhdabooks's review against another edition
5.0
Darrin Bell is the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for a cartoon editorial. He made history and it’s a history worth remembering and celebrating. But in order to do it properly you must know ALL of Bell’s story. I am honored to have gotten to sit and reflect with Bell’s experiences, as well as on my own.
Theirs is beauty in acknowledging and celebrating the journey. But theirs is something solidifying about ensuring a safer and more fulfilling journey for those who come after us. May their “talks” be one of history and remembrance. Not of survival and self preservation.
Graphic: Gun violence, Homophobia, Violence, Bullying, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Grief, Death, and Colonisation
chelseaabu1's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Racism
Minor: Slavery and Police brutality
bookbuyingwithkatie's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism
jade13's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Police brutality
Some mention of pandemic 2020annreadsabook's review against another edition
2.5
I get the author’s desire to examine his own experiences as a biracial Black man and the complexities that come with it. But I think a lot of this book reads very repetitive and surface level…realizing cops racially profile, sometimes biracial kids aren’t accepted into either community, etc. As a Black person reading this, it felt very much written for while folks.
And a couple things bothered me:
- The failure to acknowledge the privileges that did undoubtedly come with having a white parent/primary caregiver, as well as being lighter skinned; and
- There's a very brief mention of Bell's creation of a caricature of turban-wearing "terrorists" after 9/11 that were extremely racist and harmful...and he glosses over this in only a couple of panels. This was extremely jarring and felt almost as though Bell included the couple of panels out of a feeling of obligation, not necessarily out of a true desire to reckon with his own prejudices.
For a book that's singularly devoted to talking about race in America, it felt quite surface-level and limited. Each vignette left me feeling dissatisfied; there was much more in each scene that needed to be unpacked.
This book felt more invested in considering at far range the harms the author experienced while not stopping to really consider his own role in harming others or his own privileges.
Wanted to love this, just missed the mark for me.
Thank you to Henry Holt for the gifted copy.
Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, and Bullying