Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

51 reviews

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

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

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

cpchester's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

A must read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Police brutality, Colonisation, Hate crime, Violence, Racial slurs, Racism, and Slavery

solenodon's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, and Grief

Moderate: Death, Child abuse, Rape, Slavery, Colonisation, Murder, Violence, Gun violence, and Racial slurs

Minor: Drug use

annavk's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Racial slurs, and Death

Moderate: Slavery

amvera's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Police brutality, Slavery, and Violence

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

powerful, searing, visceral, unrelenting, and unbelievably eloquent, between the world and me succeeds in the almost-impossible task of encapsulating the personal experiences of being black in america to the country's insidious system of upholding whiteness w/ the destruction of its seeming counterpart. there's at least a sentence on almost every page that stuns or makes one pause out of its sheer revelatory power or truth. reading this book is very much like being slapped out of a big pharma drug-induced lifelong stupor.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Gun violence, Death, and Violence

Minor: Child death

charleshasalibrary's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Trafficking, Murder, Rape, Violence, Child abuse, Classism, Drug use, Genocide, Gun violence, Police brutality, and Death