Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

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

24 reviews

meant2breading's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

I mostly read fiction, so I won’t be rating this like I do other books. Stamped From the Beginning should be a required educational reading. It is a lot of information! To help me absorb and process it all better, I read about 20-30 pages a day. Very thankful to have had the opportunity to read and better learn this history. I will definitely plan to reread this again one day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Slavery, Colonisation, Racial slurs, Racism, and Classism

crybabybea's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Murder, Colonisation, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Slavery, Addiction, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Torture, and War

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

asainspace's review

informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Comprehensive, useful, readable history of anti-Black racism in America.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Slavery, Suicide, and Rape

Moderate: Trafficking and Genocide

Minor: Islamophobia and War

bookcheshirecat's review

4.0

 “The principal function of racist ideas in American history has been the suppression of resistance to racial discrimination and its resulting racial disparities. The beneficiaries of slavery, segregation, and mass incarceration have produced racist ideas of Black people being best suited for or deserving of the confines of slavery, segregation, or the jail cell. Consumers of these racist ideas have been led to believe there is something wrong with Black people, and not the policies that have enslaved, oppressed, and confined so many Black people.”

➽ Stamped is a comprehensible history about race and racism in America! I read the version retold by Jason Reynolds and wasn’t satisfied with how it modernized and left out important aspects of history. Therefore I was planning on reading the original version by Ibram X. Kendi, as it dives much deeper into the historical background and important key figures of the different eras! I enjoyed listening to the audiobook and learning more about the topic, though there was a lot of information and things I’d have to reread in the future to fully take them in! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Racism, Slavery, Police brutality, and Sexual assault

onlyonebookshelf's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Racial slurs, and Misogyny

ladygetslit's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Slavery, Racism, Racial slurs, and Classism

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual assault, and Hate crime

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

A powerful, challenging, and necessary read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Sexism, Xenophobia, Misogyny, and Slavery

koreanlinda's review

It is depressing and stressful to read all the details of White supremacist history of the United States. As an academic paper, the book does not leave out details but lists all the events even if they are similar, repeated acts of oppression against Black people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Slavery

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