Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

58 reviews

chaoticnostalgia's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Slavery, Death, Child abuse, Racism, Xenophobia, Classism, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Hate crime, Police brutality, Suicide, War, Forced institutionalization, and Grief

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic and Sexism

Minor: Mass/school shootings

adriennegg's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Essential reading for everyone!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Gaslighting, Police brutality, Torture, Racism, Antisemitism, and Violence

kelley016's review against another edition

challenging informative sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Police brutality, Slavery, Hate crime, Death, Racism, and Injury/Injury detail

cnjg88's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Antisemitism, Racial slurs, Murder, Gun violence, Rape, Violence, War, Classism, Xenophobia, Slavery, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Racism, Pedophilia, Hate crime, Gaslighting, and Death

Moderate: Cursing, Car accident, Blood, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Deportation, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, and Domestic abuse

readwithandreina's review

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Racism, Xenophobia, Slavery, Police brutality, and War

elizas's review

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Racism, Police brutality, Hate crime, Blood, and Torture

Moderate: Slavery

readandfindout's review

informative slow-paced

4.0

Style/writing: 3.5 stars
Themes: 4.5 stars
Perspective: 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Child death, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Hate crime, Genocide, Death, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Murder, Antisemitism, Torture, Classism, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Suicide, Child abuse, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Colonisation, Gore, and War

Moderate: Misogyny

meaghanelizabook's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Death, Murder, Slavery, Colonisation, Police brutality, Classism, and Racism

micaelamariem's review

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

 found this book to be very educational, motivational, and eye-opening. It was interesting, though brutal, to learn the full scale of the history of caste in america and how awful we can be as humans. I think everyone could benefit from reading this. However, though I agree with Wilkerson on everything including the politics of today, I can see how it might polarize people to where they’d miss the point she’s trying to make. I also think the cohesiveness of the narrative could have been better. Still, overall a great read of a dark history and startling present! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Vomit, War, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Death of parent, Deportation, Pregnancy, Bullying, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Death, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Stalking, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Violence, Xenophobia, Suicide, and Torture

robbiehuman's review

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, and Classism

Moderate: Misogyny, Islamophobia, Antisemitism, Colonisation, Gun violence, Police brutality, and Genocide

Minor: Cancer and Cultural appropriation