Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

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

9 reviews

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

eelizard's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Violence, Slavery, Genocide, Confinement, Racism, Murder, Classism, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Gun violence, and Colonisation

amandalorianxo's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

The content in this is heavy. It’s not heavy in terms of graphic content but heavy in the sense of how much injustice and racism has existed long before the United States even became a nation in the first place. It took me a longer time than usual to absorb the words. I felt a jumble of emotions as I was reminded of the countless unnecessary deaths of Black and Brown individuals who had done nothing wrong except to exist on a planet that is against them.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Police brutality, and Racism

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

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

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

meganpbennett's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

The New Jim Crow starts with an interesting premise, and explains it quite well. It focuses on Black men in America, specifically Black men who have been arrested, have served jail time, are currently incarcerated, or have been released on parole or similar. It also looks at how we got here, how we went from slavery to the War on Drugs. 

The author acknowledges that this book has a very narrow focus, and I think that this narrow focus helps the book. While it would have been helpful and informative for there to have been sections on Hispanic men or Black women, keeping the focus on Black men emphasized how 'colorblind' politics really aren't, and how the modern day prison industrial complex had its roots in Slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow. 

It's a fascinating, if depressing, read about something that most people don't think about in modern day America - prisoners, parolees, those who have been arrested, those who have pled guilty, those who have to "check the box". 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, Confinement, Slavery, Hate crime, Drug abuse, and Violence

andyfrenchhh's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Police brutality, Racism, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, and Drug abuse

erniedresser's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Racism, Police brutality, and Hate crime