Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

141 reviews

cnjg88's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Antisemitism, Racial slurs, Murder, Gun violence, Rape, Violence, War, Classism, Xenophobia, Slavery, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Racism, Pedophilia, Hate crime, Gaslighting, and Death

Moderate: Cursing, Car accident, Blood, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Deportation, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, and Domestic abuse

readwithandreina's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Racism, Xenophobia, Slavery, Police brutality, and War

hannahwinston's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

Whatever you think you know about the origins of racism/classism/caste, this book goes even further.

While I knew a lot about the American Caste, I did not know how much it influenced Nazis. There were several lines that blew my mind but this one, about selling souvenirs from lynchings during the Jim Crow Era, knocked me off my feet:

“This was singularly American. Even the Nazis did not stoop to selling souvenirs of Auschwitz, wrote time magazine many years later.”

The biggest takeaway/reminder:

“Evil asks little of the dominant caste other than to sit back and do nothing. All that it needs from bystanders is their silent complicity in the evil committed on their behalf.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Kidnapping, Slavery, Antisemitism, Physical abuse, Racism, Death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Classism, Confinement, Torture, and Colonisation

elizas's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Racism, Police brutality, Hate crime, Blood, and Torture

Moderate: Slavery

haley1999's review against another edition

challenging informative

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

jurgbury's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

This is a must read to better understand America and the world and how we are set up in our caste systems. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Violence, Xenophobia, and Racism

omg_pear's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

An amazing book and it put so much into perspective that I never thought about before.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

rheagoveas's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, and Racism

randisworld's review against another edition

hopeful informative sad medium-paced

5.0

Amazing book. All Americans should read this book. Everyone. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence