brannonkirkhuang 's review for:

Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang

3.0

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A really well-written book. You can definitely tell it’s written for younger readers, but also it does NOT SHY AWAY from showing real, brutal racism. Sometimes I wished the moral of the story could have been more viciously anti-racist. The heroes are very tame and just kinda say generic, “this is wrong but we can beat it with love,” types of things. I want it to go beyond that. I need these racists to be ridiculed beyond belief. I need to see them humiliated and shunned by society. Make that shit hit harder than just, “hey! That’s wrong!”