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kylieqrada's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Cancer, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, and Trafficking
smithreads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Cancer
bea_'s review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Racism, and Racial slurs
falfy's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Racism
btg's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Cancer, Transphobia, Slavery, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Xenophobia, and Islamophobia
Minor: Mass/school shootings
Quick note on the content warnings -- this is a nonfiction book. Very few of these are explicitly described without the unpacking/dismantling of the reasons why it happens/what we can do about it, and I wouldn't strictly describe most of the content used as "graphic". It's definitely presented differently than a typical piece of media. That being said, be aware that this book covers heavy topics, probably because it's an antiracism book. Of course various types of prejudice are getting exploredashleyreads88's review against another edition
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Homophobia, Cancer, and Police brutality
melaniereadsbooks's review against another edition
4.5
Kendi does an excellent job interweaving historical examples, personal examples, and well-explained definitions into each chapter to teach about the many intersectionalities of racism and other -ims.
My only complaint is that I felt the chapters on gender and sexuality were severely lacking compared to the rest of the book, and it was very noticeable that these were not up to par.
I felt this book taught a lot and I look forward to reading more of Kendi's work.
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Cancer, Sexism, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Police brutality
enbygolem's review against another edition
4.0
It was not perfect though.
Unfortunately, the quality of discussion suddenly dipped when talking about both Gender and Sexuality. The section about women was simply lacking and not even close to the level of the rest of the book. In my opinion though, the biggest offender was the profound absence of meaningful discussion around the Queer community. This is so unfortunate since the intersection between People of Color and Queer identities are so underrepresented and, as the book mentions, are most aggressively targeted with hate and violence. I appreciate that he mentions his dealing with his instilled homophobia but I feel that this acknowledgement unfortunately did not keep pieces of it from leaking onto the page.
Moderate: Racism
therainbowshelf's review against another edition
4.5
Ibram Kendi takes a good hard look at racism in this book. He discussed how racism tries to turn the word "racist" into an epethet so racist people can be mad about being called racist, and speaks at length about fighting racist policies that create racial inequity. He also spends quite a lot of time examining his own racism (and other things like homophobia) in his past endeavors to fight racism and how he's learned from that. I recommend this read, but it may be hard for anyone who's lives have been touched by cancer (discussed in the ending).
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, and Racism
Moderate: Gun violence, Hate crime, Sexism, and Misogyny
Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Police brutality, and Forced institutionalization
alayamorning's review against another edition
3.5
Moderate: Cancer, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Transphobia, and Violence
Minor: Drug use