Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

5 reviews

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Deadnaming, Ableism, Addiction, Chronic illness, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Torture, Gun violence, Hate crime, Police brutality, Bullying, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, War, Drug abuse, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Grief, Cursing, Death, and Racial slurs

bgirl1214's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Slavery

Moderate: Racial slurs, Hate crime, and Gaslighting

Minor: Violence, Sexual violence, and Gun violence

rupl's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

Dense, detailed look at US history from a lens completely overlooked in the US school system. You'll brush with basic facts you learned long ago, but their rich stories might be completely new. This book calmly yet passionately tells another US history, using five major characters to guide us through various eras.

I learned new parts of history and re-learned many others, all the while learning not to characterize individuals, but each of their actions. The book compiles countless examples of segregation, assimilation, and finally antiracism, from fleeting moments to entire legacies of individuals. By methodically reading from start to finish, and looking at example after example of each ideology I formed a better, more accurate view of history as it relates to power, racist policy erected to protect the powerful, and the racist ideas that get created in order to defend racist policies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, and Gun violence

Moderate: Antisemitism, Colonisation, Homophobia, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

decklededgess's review

challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

Most non fiction books give me the vocabulary to communicate ideas I was already familiar with this is an invaluable asset. This one though... I have come across a LOT of new information and innumerable ways of seeing through the societal structures we protect that continue to uphold racism and white supremacy. 
Perhaps the most depressing yet enlightening tidbit was in the epilogue where the author says something along the lines of: you can't expect people to be altruistic but they certainly can function with "intelligent self interest" to see that the systems they protect actually do not help them at all.
Which....yeah dude that's exactly it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, and Slavery

tabitha_isabelle's review

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, and Violence