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esme_may's review
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
medium-paced
4.5
Everyone in the UK should read this. It would make a great introduction to reading about race as well, it's petty accessible and the narrative voice is delightfully sarcastic
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, Violence, Racial slurs, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Antisemitism, Bullying, Classism, Religious bigotry, Xenophobia, Genocide, and Blood
Minor: Sexism, Slavery, Sexual assault, and Rape
lukerik's review
funny
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
If Zack de la Rocha were British and wrote a book.
It’s a hard piece of writing to categorise. Political and personal and polemical. It’s almost like a personal work of sociology, properly referenced and with an interesting bibliography. Akala is obviously a very intelligent man with a finely tuned bullshit detector and a laser-like intellect that he turns on some very confusing issues. Thorough, precise, and sensible arguments and he never takes rhetorical shortcuts even when he’s angry. I didn’t agree with all his conclusions, but if we’re all going to agree we may as well give up and stop thinking now. A very thought-provoking book. I often found it sending my mind off at tangents so that reading it is almost like engaging in a dialogue. Also very funny at times.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, Genocide, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Racism
achingallover's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, and Xenophobia
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