Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by

21 reviews

cady_sass's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

A bleak and brutal look at the reality of poverty in America through the eyes of a number of Milwaukee residents constantly teetering the edge of homelessness. It’s easy to get lost in these peoples stories and forget this is nonfiction, for many who have never seen or experienced or even imagined poverty this reads like fiction. The endless cycle created by the American government is a tough pill to swallow. Imagining a woman choosing to tolerate physical abuse rather than call the police and risk being evicted for being a problem tenant? That’s real and that’s horrific. And that’s just one of many, many stories told here. This is another book that I wish everyone could be compelled to read, there is a deeper understanding here and the empathy that comes with that understanding is critical to making progressive change. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Abandonment, Ableism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

larbster90's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

One of the best non-fiction books I've read. Tells the story of eviction not just with numbers, but with human stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Addiction, Animal death, Racism, Physical abuse, Child death, and Drug use

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

elyssajoh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Drug abuse, Cursing, Alcohol, Addiction, and Abandonment

_forestofpages's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexism, and Cursing

Moderate: Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, and Child death

lily1304's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.5

Honestly this was a brilliant ethnography - people don't take sociology seriously as a field of research, but this is an example of why they should! Personal stories hit home more than impersonal statistics, but Desmond cites plenty of research too to back up the stories he records.

Do not skip the epilogue and afterword about his research methods!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, and Violence

Descriptions of eviction, homelessness, hunger, and poverty

junefish's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Xenophobia, Ableism, Animal death, Cursing, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Sexism

Minor: Vomit, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Police brutality

edie_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Excrement, and Cursing

julesapollo's review against another edition

dark relaxing fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Violence

samvanz12's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Racial slurs

katsudonburi's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

5.0

A brutal and incredibly upsetting look at poverty and the damage eviction does to people and their families; what keeps it from reading as trauma porn is the author's deep commitment to the humanity of his subjects and constant examination of the systems that have not so much failed them as been designed to exploit them. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, and Rape