Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

74 reviews

shoshin's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Sometimes, it's easiest to understand what is happening around you by finding a way to step outside it to describe it. Wilkerson does that brilliantly with this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Genocide, and Murder

Moderate: Sexism and Classism

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, Misogyny, Deportation, Antisemitism, Child death, Police brutality, Slavery, and Xenophobia

arthur_harris's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

This book pulls absolutely no punches. It lays out the facts of its subject matter with a kind of frank, unflinching look at the truth that is so constantly softened and blunted in history. Deeply, grimly informative on the true history of the Black experience in the United States. A harsh reality check for those - like me - who grew up with a whitewashed view of American history. While this book is a difficult read in many ways, that is part of what makes it such a necessary one. It forces the reader to examine the deeply ingrained racism baked into the foundation of America, and the subsequent role of the (non-Black) reader in that racist system. An absolutely vital piece of literature. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Police brutality, Child abuse, Cultural appropriation, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Colonisation, Slavery, Blood, Medical trauma, Racism, Child death, and Murder

jess_westhafer's review against another edition

I felt like I got everything out of this book I was going to in the pages I read. The ideas started to seem redundant, and I didn’t feel the need to keep going. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Antisemitism, Violence, Slavery, and Torture

tanyafrey's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Classism, Slavery, Racism, and Hate crime

pollyflorence's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Violence, Slavery, Genocide, Antisemitism, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, and Racism

youreawizardjerry's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Physical abuse, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Blood, Bullying, Body horror, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gore, Gun violence, Death, and Death of parent

madradstarchild's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Racism

Moderate: Mass/school shootings, Islamophobia, Police brutality, Murder, Misogyny, Hate crime, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Slavery, Genocide, Sexism, and Homophobia

Minor: War, Drug use, Classism, Ableism, Racial slurs, Rape, and Colonisation

thedisabledreader's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, War, Murder, Hate crime, Slavery, Antisemitism, Police brutality, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, and Classism

jenniferbbookdragon's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

 America's racism has established a caste system, and this examination of the similarities between the US, India, and Nazi Germany is powerful and compelling. Using this framework to address history as well as current societal and political issues makes for book that will make the reader reconsider what they think they know about why individuals and groups act the way they do around race.
Well researched without being dry, and including the author's experience as an African-American woman, it isn't a quick read due to the need to process the material. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Slavery, War, Antisemitism, and Classism