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horizonous's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, and Police brutality
Minor: Genocide, Rape, and Medical content
atamano's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Classism
ebrown0789's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Racism and Slavery
Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Slavery, Torture, and Violence
Minor: Police brutality
beanjoles's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Torture
Moderate: Antisemitism
nicole_p's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder
f18's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Suicide, War, and Classism
Minor: Rape, Sexism, Xenophobia, Mass/school shootings, and Colonisation
tlilf's review against another edition
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Classism
carmenvillaman's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Body horror, Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Antisemitism, and Cultural appropriation
elly29's review against another edition
4.0
I have a better appreciation for how intrinsic and invested racism is within American society. I think sometimes Wilkerson can be myopic, roundabout in her points, and excessive in her metaphors -- for example, she should've acknowledged earlier that European immigrants, though they themselves might've experienced racism, were able to assimilate after a generation, and she does indeed make the point that that was accomplished through distancing themselves from Black folk. However, her research is thorough, and she brings up many good points and examples about race, class, and caste within the United States. I'm particularly interested in Ambitkar, the Indian equivalent of Martin Luther King, Jr, and in Allison David's and the Gardners' "Deep South," a sociological study of caste while living covertly under it. They were some brave folk.
In terms of the writing, by the time we got to chapters in the twenties, it seemed like it had just become a litany of all the ways in which someone was denied expressing the full measure of their skill and mastery. Which, chapter after chapter, is depressing. The conclusion and epilogue kind of brought it back into analysis and calls to action.
Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, and Trafficking