Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

57 reviews

purplepenning's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

Should certainly be required reading, in and out of the classroom. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Gun violence, Murder, Racism, and Death

Moderate: Racial slurs, Violence, Grief, Classism, and Slavery

iinasomnia's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Murder, Gun violence, Slavery, and Police brutality

22_catching_rae's review

dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Like Toni Morrison said—-“This is required reading.”

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Hate crime, Murder, Violence, Racial slurs, Racism, and Gun violence

tmchopra's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Police brutality, Racism, Classism, Gun violence, Hate crime, Slavery, Death, Murder, Child death, and Racial slurs

cady_sass's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

“The entire narrative of this country argues against the truth of who you are.”

This should be required reading. It’s a bit dense, and, despite being very short, takes some time to read and absorb. The stream of consciousness prose can be a little off putting to some, but if you take the time to move through this slowly it really adds to it. Heavy. Hard-hitting and deeply moving. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Cursing, Violence, Death, Racial slurs, Gun violence, Classism, Slavery, Police brutality, Hate crime, and Child death

clarabooksit's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Death, Grief, and Racism

Moderate: Gun violence, Child abuse, Violence, and Physical abuse

honeyvoiced's review

reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Gun violence and Police brutality

samugranjo's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Hate crime

Moderate: Colonisation, Slavery, Gun violence, Death, Grief, Racial slurs, Violence, and Classism

goldenjunegem's review

reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Racial slurs, Gun violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

zanm's review

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

3.5

I had to read this for class and I’m pretty torn on it. I had a two-three hour discussion with a friend and we came to several conclusions:

It is a good book because its controversy sparks discussion and the writing style is extremely raw. 

It is a bad book because it panders just a bit too much and doesn’t expand nearly enough on certain issues (ex. how racism is ingrained in America via capitalism). 

So you see- I’m torn. 

Personally, this gave me the feel of a book written so white people can read it and say they’ve “done the research.” I also really liked specific parts of it and hated others, but that’s crucial to a book on race. It’s not supposed to be comfortable. 

Another thing that immensely bothered me is that it’s marketed as “a book for his son” when it’s so clearly not. 

TLDR: Worth reading but only if you rip it apart and use it as a jumping point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Gun violence, Death, Classism, Violence, Racism, Hate crime, Police brutality, and Grief

Moderate: Misogyny, Antisemitism, and Homophobia