Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds

13 reviews

tamara_joy's review

challenging informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Slavery

Moderate: Classism, Colonisation, Police brutality, and Racial slurs

Minor: War, Antisemitism, Genocide, Death, Murder, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Islamophobia

maple_dove's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

Does an excellent job at explaining some of the history of anti-Black racism, how it functions, why it's still here, and more.

But remember, this is not a history book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Religious bigotry, and Misogyny

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Rape

kitheminges's review

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Slavery, Genocide, Police brutality, Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Violence

d_gurl_trinity's review

funny informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Sexual assault

madradstarchild's review

informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Slavery

Minor: Colonisation, Police brutality, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Racial slurs

lordefarquaad's review

medium-paced

4.0

I really liked it. The only reason I wouldn’t give it a 5 is because I felt like since the book was so short, a lot of info was kind of dumbed down. Still a great intro to antirscism for teens and young adults tho

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Murder

Moderate: Rape and Police brutality

lucinotlucy's review

challenging informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Colonisation, Genocide, Hate crime, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, and Slavery

hellscape_princess's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Violence, Slavery, Sexism, Misogyny, Islamophobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, Hate crime, and Police brutality

Minor: Rape, Homophobia, and Forced institutionalization

brookey8888's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Such an important read. I really learned a lot and it was in a really assessable way. This was obviously serious but there was humor which I appreciated. The audiobook was really good! Jason Reynolds did an amazing job narrating and they was also music at the start of a new chapter. I highly recommend this if you want to start/continue your anti-racist journey. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Sexism, and Slavery

alisazhup's review

informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

This was a short but incredibly informative not history history book! 95% of what I read was new to me.

The chapters were fast paced but some of them ended up making for dense reading. There were some parts where I wish the authors had gone into more depth. For example, I was a little disappointed by the chapter on W. E. B. Du Bois. I loved Du Bois' writing on double consciousness and the authors of Stamped overgeneralized the concept by implying that it's assimilationist thought and that it's simply about "a self that is Black and a self that is American." It's fair to have that opinion, but since I believe it's an unpopular one (double consciousness is a topic discussed frequently to this day), it deserved more than a paragraph.

Also, there were times when the authors' tone clashed with the book's content. I understand that Jason Reynolds wanted to make this book more readable for younger audiences, but at times it was a little too much. This is a quote from chapter one: "Uh-oh. The R-word. Which for many of us still feels rated R. Or can be matched only with another R word-run. But don't. Let's all just take a deep breath. Inhale. Hold it. Exhale and breathe out: RACE." It almost feels like I'm being talked down to. 

The authors tried to make an effort to include LGBT+ people and women. I would say they succeeded in being inclusive of women, but not LGBT+ people. I can count maybe two times that they were mentioned.   

Regardless of those three factors-the tone, the pacing, and inclusivity-I would replace this with current school history textbooks any day. THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER than history told through a white perspective.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Hate crime, Murder, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, Sexism, Slavery, and Violence