Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson

6 reviews

mj_86's review

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Racial slurs, Slavery, and Gun violence

Moderate: Death and Violence

Minor: War

alexisgarcia's review

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

this is a really hard read. this is a very very important book but it is incredibly difficult to stomach.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Death of parent, Blood, Gun violence, Hate crime, Rape, Murder, Grief, Child death, Classism, Death, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Slavery

stevia333k's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

This book explained a lot of the unsaid microaggressions/macroaggressions things of anti-blackness that I sensed from not only the racist people I've interacted with but even movies (tho this book doesn't analyze movies)

Basically white settler colonizers especially on the plantations want to hunt & kill black people more than they want to go to war for rich white patriarchal capitalists.

When we look at antisemitism in Europe such as covered by "warrant for genocide" by norman cohn, those pogroms match up mostly with the anti-blackness in USA.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Rape, Stalking, Deportation, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Slavery, Torture, Xenophobia, Violence, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Death of parent, Murder, Racism, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Child death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Death, and War

skitch41's review

challenging dark informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Gore, Mass/school shootings, and Torture

bauermeyers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Torture, Slavery, Racism, Gore, Violence, Rape, Physical abuse, and Murder

kryan1's review

challenging dark informative tense fast-paced

4.0

The topics in this book were incredibly heavy, but Carol Anderson wove them together in a way that was unapologetic, clear, and profound. My favorite aspect of this book was Anderson's ability to incorporate historical quotes so seamlessly into her own writing. The book has provided so much clarity on events that have been muddied by history textbooks or the media. The Second gives context to the true danger that lies in the Second Amendment, and presents a compelling argument for the hypocrisy it exemplifies.

I highly recommend this for anyone who wants to better understand how racism is written into the very fabric of our nation, and how we must work to uproot it permanently.

(Full Disclosure: I won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Hate crime, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Racial slurs