Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

13 reviews

haleybird's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

This book was incredibly thought provoking and informative, it’s just really dense and was personally hard for me to get through, but I’m glad I did! It’s difficult for me to keep up with so many acronyms, company names, so much data and stats, etc. 

Regardless of that, however, I do believe this is a book that anyone who uses rechargeable electronics or electric vehicles should read. The more people know about the atrocities that continue to be committed in the Congo for the sole purpose of exploiting their resources, the better. 

I will surely be much more conscious about my consumption of products that use rechargeable batteries moving forward, as I can’t in good conscience keep blindly consuming while children, women, and men in the Congo continue to die indiscriminately. We all need to do better!  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, War, Blood, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Classism, Death of parent, Gun violence, Murder, Genocide, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Torture, Colonisation, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, and Trafficking

zippz's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.0

Detailed and horrifyingly informative. It's an important read, but I wish a little more time was devoted to solutions and strategies to support the people of the Congo, rather than just failures to do so.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Classism, Body horror, Violence, Child abuse, Police brutality, and Racism

salemander's review against another edition

5.0

devastating and so informative. free the congo. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual violence, Death, Slavery, Violence, Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, Child abuse, Colonisation, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, and Trafficking

ecn's review against another edition

5.0

Mandatory reading!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Child abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Infertility, Sexism, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Sexual harassment, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Body horror, Colonisation, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Trafficking, Cancer, Death of parent, and Genocide

scmiller's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Trafficking, Classism, Confinement, Death, Torture, Sexual violence, Slavery, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Blood, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Genocide, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, and Miscarriage

Minor: Car accident and Animal death

ekmartin's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Trafficking, Physical abuse, Violence, Child death, Death, Kidnapping, Classism, Child abuse, Slavery, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Medical trauma, Violence, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Medical content, Racism, Rape, Torture, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

bexs848's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book encouraged me to think more critically about what and how I consume in Western civilization. Extremely informative and sad, and very well-written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Racism, Colonisation, Child abuse, Child death, and Sexual assault

akswaneee's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Slavery, Sexual violence, and Racism

hanhantap's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, Violence, Racism, Death, and Colonisation

Moderate: Sexual violence, War, Rape, and Pandemic/Epidemic

jonna_doucette's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Essential reading! Siddharth Kara's "Cobalt Red" is a triumph in human rights and labor reporting. This is what journalism looks like. Matter-of-fact and unflinching in its narrative, this book can and should radicalize all of us to embrace a future of conspicuous consumption.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Medical trauma

Moderate: Racism, Child death, and Violence

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual violence, and Slavery