Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

11 reviews

vanesst's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Drug use, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Police brutality

wlreed312's review against another edition

challenging informative sad

4.5

Everyone in America should read this book. As someone who has family that has been a direct participant in the war on drugs (I have a cousin who was an undercover narcotics officer before he retired) this was both eye-opening and upsetting. I knew some of the history because I've read quite a bit about the Nixon years, and learned some more about the Reagan years through various sources, but there was still so much I was unaware of. I thought the last chapter dealing with the concept of exceptionism was particularly enlightening. I was more than a little pained by the multiple mentions of Bill Cosby as someone who had been a positive figure in the black community, but that's what I get for waiting so long to read it. I did get slightly bogged down in the legalese occasionally, but it never got so bad I didn't understand the points being made. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Drug use

Moderate: Police brutality

annamay1021's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Drug use, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, and Hate crime

lizziaha's review

informative

4.0

This book made a huge contribution to the shifting of my worldview. I highly recommend this book for a more complete understanding of race in America. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Police brutality, Racism, Gun violence, and Drug use

emmablue's review against another edition

4.5

every american should read this book. the information is essential.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Police brutality

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Hate crime, and Slavery

alyssa_s10's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

One of the most important books to read if you are an American. Or belong to one of the countries that has a police system heavily based on the American police system. This book should be part of a mandator  reading list for college. I listened to the audio book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, and Police brutality

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Slavery

Minor: Addiction

kayleighr's review

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Slavery, Racial slurs, Death, Murder, and Hate crime

Minor: Addiction

sarahrosea's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Classism, Police brutality, and Drug use

Moderate: War, Violence, and Police brutality

caelinsullivan's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, Racism, and Slavery

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

I'm glad I finally got to read this after having it on my shelf for so long. It's an important political touchstone for a reason. Well reasoned and well researched. It's amazing how the impact of this book has been felt in the last few years, to the point where this book almost seems not to go far enough, since discussions of abolition are more mainstream. Still, very foundational. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, and Police brutality

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Slavery, and Torture

Minor: Antisemitism, Car accident, Colonisation, Excrement, Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and War

incarceration, capital punishment