Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

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

5 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

brookey8888's review

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

3.5

This was a lot. Was it a very important read and worth it yes. Did I sometimes feel dumb reading this yes. Most of the topics discussed are horrible so trigger warning. This book made me mad and sad. I do think people should read this, but it is basically a history book so I don’t know how assessable this would be for everyone. I do understand why it went through the whole history of slavery, but I don’t know as much about that so it was harder to I guess understand, but when we got more in the current day I was able to understand and like connect the dots more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Torture, Colonisation, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, and War

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

This book takes us from our nation’s inception through the presidency of Barack Obama. It highlights three main race ideologies and explicates about each one over the decades. Segregationists, those who believe Black folx are genetically inferior and don’t believe in equality; assimilationists, who believe that Black people need to try harder to become better people (aka more white); and antiracists, who believe that systems of inequality and discrimination have always been the culprit of inequity in American society. This book points out that both segregationists and assimilationists are racist, even if the latter would try to have you believe otherwise. I learned a lot about our country’s history, policies, and leaders that will help inform my continued efforts to be antiracist moving forward and will help me focus on Black freedom in this country and beyond.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Genocide, Islamophobia, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

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