Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

10 reviews

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Death, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Hate crime, Gun violence, Dysphoria, Confinement, Xenophobia, Violence, Torture, Trafficking, Police brutality, Slavery, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Racism, Physical abuse, Murder, Genocide, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Grief, and Cultural appropriation

meghan1111's review

emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality, Racial slurs, Rape, Violence, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Confinement, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Classism, Racism, Sexism, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Slavery, Death, and Hate crime

Minor: Child death

keyradiator's review

adventurous challenging dark informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Absolutely breathtaking. Loved damn near every word in this book.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Classism, Police brutality, Racism, Physical abuse, Colonisation, Slavery, Racial slurs, Hate crime, and Gun violence

chronicacademia's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Classism, Gun violence, Hate crime, Grief, Violence, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Death, and Physical abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Sexism, and Misogyny

unomi57's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Physical abuse

audc's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

It was well penned and put into words the fear of being black. 
It’s informative of Coates’ experience and life as a black man in America which is packed with a lot of fear that then turns into anger. 
While I agree with the sentiment of Dreamers in America and a majority being white or wanting to be white (ie. having power and authority to inflict destruction), I do not agree with how inflated, fatalist, galactic, racism is portrayed. While it has become cultural and institutionalized -integrated- I do not agree with Coates’ fatalistic view. He ends with the struggle and more of a call for ‘fight for yourself’ instead of strive as a collective.
For this, this book transmits fear and morphs it into anger. As he doesn’t spend nearly as much time on the solution as describing the problem. I can understand where and how he got to his conclusion, but there is a danger in generalising. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Slavery, Racial slurs, Rape, Blood, Physical abuse, and Violence

indeedithappens's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Death of parent, Police brutality, War, Abandonment, Bullying, Child death, Physical abuse, Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Murder, Racial slurs, Violence, Child abuse, Classism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Gaslighting, Rape, and Xenophobia

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

farleighelse's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

VV good. emotional. Would recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Police brutality

Moderate: Physical abuse

Minor: Rape

hyperpension's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

This book is beautifully written. A must read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Violence, Child death, Hate crime, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Slavery, Abandonment, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Sexual violence, and Drug use