Reviews tagging 'Racism'

The Tradition by Jericho Brown

27 reviews

readingbrb's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Racism

Moderate: Mass/school shootings, Rape, Homophobia, and Sexual content

livelaughlesbian99's review against another edition

sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Police brutality, Rape, and Domestic abuse

rachelfayreads's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mass/school shootings, Rape, Police brutality, Slavery, Racism, Violence, and Physical abuse

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Classism, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Physical abuse

astrangewind's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

I wanted to like this book more than I did. Don't get me wrong - Brown's poems are striking and evocative, effortlessly linking sound and form and style to experience. In theory, this should appeal to me, but something about it doesn't land quite right. Maybe it's the awkwardness of some of his lines - it's clear that he has never read a whole lot of these poems out loud. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Colonisation, Sexual content, and Racism

Minor: Police brutality, Rape, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual violence, and Classism

ekg's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Racism

befrazzledenby's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

5.0

Breathtakingly beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Racism

readsbymoonlight's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, and Gun violence

khakipantsofsex's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, Gun violence, Violence, Racism, and Police brutality

Minor: Child abuse and Incest

hue's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Gun violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Racism