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A review by charliebnl
Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu? by Niq Mhlongo
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
The more stories we explore, the more we understand the depths of colonisations’ impact on society. Black Tax is a concept that should it exist. Helping out family shouldn’t be a burden.
But the far reaching tentacles of racism structures turns kindness into duty into expectations into burdens.
From pay disparities, to education barriers, to location disadvantages, there are a myriad of ways in which the black body is kept down and out.
This collection of essays on people’s personal experiences was enlightening, however it became repetitive whenever they explained / defined black tax and it’s origins.
I’d have preferred the essays to be strictly the authors’ personal experiences and the definitions to have been covered up front once.
However, as overall I found myself learning about things that I’d never considered such as why STEM subjects remain inaccessible to the vast majority of this country- an issue of affordability rather than capacity; I felt that this book was an important read if you just skim over the definitions in the essays that included them.
But the far reaching tentacles of racism structures turns kindness into duty into expectations into burdens.
From pay disparities, to education barriers, to location disadvantages, there are a myriad of ways in which the black body is kept down and out.
This collection of essays on people’s personal experiences was enlightening, however it became repetitive whenever they explained / defined black tax and it’s origins.
I’d have preferred the essays to be strictly the authors’ personal experiences and the definitions to have been covered up front once.
However, as overall I found myself learning about things that I’d never considered such as why STEM subjects remain inaccessible to the vast majority of this country- an issue of affordability rather than capacity; I felt that this book was an important read if you just skim over the definitions in the essays that included them.