Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad

7 reviews

badbadwolf's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Islamophobia, Police brutality, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Bullying, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Racism, Cursing, and Slavery

wandering_canuck's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

HEAVY!! Layla Saad's book is an awakening for me. This book is a fabulous place to start for any white (and white passing) person to start their journeys on how to begin dismantling the systems that oppress BIPOC. If you've ever asked the question, " But what can I do?", this is a great start. 

Don't expect this to be a list that one checks off in order to arrive at wokeness. Though Saad guides you through recognizing your white privilege, you are expected to do the work. Oh, and what difficult work this is!! 

The book is set up as a 28 day challenge in which you are expected to reflect on the topic being discussed. Be ready to confront your beliefs and actions and be ready for it not to be easy. Think that we are in a post racial world and you are a great ally? I challenge you to pick up this book and see how far you actually have to go. **Spoiler alert** your work will never be done. 

Saad does a fantastic job of guiding the reader through such topics as: tone policing, white privilege, and white silence. But don't be fooled, though Layla Saad is the guide, YOU are expected to do the work. This book is a great starting point to dismantling white supremacy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Police brutality, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Classism and Bullying

mirandyli's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

Great primer for those with white privilege to begin reflecting on how they perpetuate and are complicit in white supremacy. I read it even though I do not have white privilege, and it made me reflect a lot on my own relationships with people with white privilege. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Toxic friendship, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Islamophobia, Misogyny, Slavery, Colonisation, and Police brutality

scrubsandbooks's review against another edition

informative

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Ableism, and Classism

peachani's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Medical trauma, Misogyny, and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Ableism, Colonisation, Genocide, Classism, Slavery, and Police brutality

sakisreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

WOW. This book was a whirlwind. Although I am a BIPOC, I wanted to read this book with a white friend so that we could discuss feelings and thoughts that arose throughout. I understand (from this book as well) that that’s not any BIPOC’s job, but this is a friend I love and trust. There were a lot of things I appreciated and understood (e.g. how white privilege has and continues to infiltrate so many systems) but I also found myself gasping at some parts (e.g. particularly pages 142 - 143, where Layla F. Saad discusses not seeing BIPOC educators in her children’s school). This is a book I’ll definitely have to continue to check back in with. I think I will be asking my white friends to read this book, ready for some very tough conversations! 👏🏼

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Classism, and Racism

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

just incredible. im not the primary target audience of this book, yet i learned so much from it and a lot of the content was relevant to me still. you will squirm and be filled with discomfort listening to this book, which is precisely the point. it also weaves a coherent whole out of all the concepts and vague ideas/thoughts i've had abt race and very helpfully puts a name on them. hard-hitting, concise, incisive, revealing, and informative, me and white supremacy challenges one to dig deep, reflect, and do better in our complicity in upholding white supremacy and contribution--however unconscious--to anti-black racism. definitely a must read esp for white people.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Medical content, Police brutality, and Racial slurs