Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

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

32 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

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

bsmulca's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Violence, Slavery, and Racism

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

aprilpie's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Police brutality, Violence, Racism, and Slavery