Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

40 reviews

_forestofpages's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexism, and Cursing

Moderate: Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, and Child death

lily1304's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.5

Honestly this was a brilliant ethnography - people don't take sociology seriously as a field of research, but this is an example of why they should! Personal stories hit home more than impersonal statistics, but Desmond cites plenty of research too to back up the stories he records.

Do not skip the epilogue and afterword about his research methods!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, and Violence

Descriptions of eviction, homelessness, hunger, and poverty

bri4103's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Racism, and Gun violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Murder

junefish's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Xenophobia, Ableism, Animal death, Cursing, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Sexism

Minor: Vomit, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Police brutality

dominicangirl's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

kaddyren's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Very informative and has memorable characters, but would probably not read again any time soon. Lots of triggering subjects. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

edie_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Excrement, and Cursing

aasplund's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

mongoosenamedt's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Racism, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Drug use

katsudonburi's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

5.0

A brutal and incredibly upsetting look at poverty and the damage eviction does to people and their families; what keeps it from reading as trauma porn is the author's deep commitment to the humanity of his subjects and constant examination of the systems that have not so much failed them as been designed to exploit them. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, and Rape