Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

14 reviews

nebulous_tide's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Police brutality

Moderate: Classism, Death, Hate crime, and Slavery

Minor: Child abuse, Rape, and Homophobia

teryndemaree's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Child abuse

hanhantap's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Hate crime, and Police brutality

Moderate: Slavery, Grief, Child abuse, Violence, Death, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Homophobia

indeedithappens's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Death of parent, Police brutality, War, Abandonment, Bullying, Child death, Physical abuse, Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Murder, Racial slurs, Violence, Child abuse, Classism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Gaslighting, Rape, and Xenophobia

michelle_l_d's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Colonisation, Rape, and Child abuse

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

afion's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Child abuse

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Rape

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

crazytourists_books's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.0

The emotions of the writer, his anger and fear are very clear to the reader, and that makes it an uncomfortable book to read, as all books about racism should be. Very good points are made throughout the book but there are a couple of things that put me off. 
It is always tricky for a privileged white person (cis woman in my case) to read a book about racism and constitutional racism and say they didn't like it. But I didn't like this book and I'll try to explain why. 
First of all, I didn't like the writing style, I thought it was not that coherent, full of the same things again and again. 
Another huge problem for me, was that the author justifies the beatings he endured by his parents because they were out of love. No, no beating is about love, its about power, about control. There is no excuse. None. If you have trauma, you seek help, you don't brutally beat your child. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Child abuse, and Police brutality

charleshasalibrary's review against another edition

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