Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

98 reviews

fairylibrary's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

lindsaylhunter's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

After a lifetime of embodying difference, I have no desire to be equal. I want to deconstruct the structural power of a system that marked me out as different. I don't wish to be assimilated into the status quo. I want to be liberated from all negative assumptions that my characteristics bring. The onus is not on me to change. Instead, it's the world around me.

Impactful. Reni Eddo-Lodge knows how to balance her lived experiences with the facts of the matter. It's no mean feat to create something so readable when you're handling incendiary topics like race, class and gender. I particularly loved the middle chapters regarding intersectionality and (white) feminism.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Sexism

adampjt's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Violence

sangsmiles's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.5

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Graphic: Racism and Colonisation

itsyourpaldave's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

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Graphic: Racism

robintchappell's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Moderate: Racism

narbine's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Misogyny, Police brutality, Violence, Hate crime, Sexism, Xenophobia, Classism, and Racism

zaracampbell's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

A must-read for any white person; incredibly enlightening and provides an opportunity for contextualising our own relation (and responsibility) to racism. Understanding the intersection of race and gender, race and class, etc is also paramount to breaking down the institutional structures that serve to harm people of colour. 

Issues with systematic racism in the UK must be spotlighted: our education system asks us to look to the American civil rights movement to study the impacts of racism, distancing ourselves from any possibility that racism could have been so prevalent in our country. 

Reni writes very powerfully, unapologetically and with conviction. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Islamophobia and Slavery

timetotalkbeauty's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

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Moderate: Slavery, Cultural appropriation, and Racism

eatwritereadrepeat's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Essential reading for white youth

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs