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kylalouis's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
3.75
Responses to this book will depend on the audience. It resonated with me although I found the author's decision-making to be overwrought and cringe-worthy at times. The book was informative, but elements of her behavior were over the top. Maybe because of time, she doesn't explore how COVID impacts public schools which would have added a layer of interest to the story
carriepond's review
4.0
I really enjoyed this. This is largely a memoir, but the author uses her personal experiences to discuss broad societal issues, namely, the gap between White progressives’ professed beliefs and actions when it comes to participation in systems that benefit us to the detriment of Black and brown people and our moral responsibility to align the two.
fornia's review
4.0
this was painful to read in the way that books are when they take up your entire brain for a few days straight
like it's just so extraordinarily vulnerable and Honest and imperfect
this whole topic is something i thought a lot about before and still think about a lot now too
going to a hella rich, predominantly white college will do that to you
it's complex and i do not pretend that i do not own several kinds of privilege but it is Not the kind that goes "my family owns property on martha's vineyard and my 21k-person town has nine country clubs and consumers advocate named it the wealthiest community in the country and you've never been to a regatta?!?! oh em GEE you applied for FINANCIAL AID???? oh we always had people to cook and clean for us back home<3" way [darien ct this Is a direct attack] and anyways there are so many layers to living in a society [we live in a society], so many layers of overprivileges and underprivileges and just a lot of shit i've been thinking about lately because like. i haven't eaten good chinese food in eleven days. yes, i've been counting. i'm the only nonwhite person in my clinical group. a couple times a week i am the only nonwhite person at a sports practice. my friend [who is also an east-asian woman] were at the same lab table and our white male lab partners would Not Stop stealing our bones [i'm taking an anatomy class]
but yes fuck darien ct and thank you courtney martin
like it's just so extraordinarily vulnerable and Honest and imperfect
this whole topic is something i thought a lot about before and still think about a lot now too
going to a hella rich, predominantly white college will do that to you
it's complex and i do not pretend that i do not own several kinds of privilege but it is Not the kind that goes "my family owns property on martha's vineyard and my 21k-person town has nine country clubs and consumers advocate named it the wealthiest community in the country and you've never been to a regatta?!?! oh em GEE you applied for FINANCIAL AID???? oh we always had people to cook and clean for us back home<3" way [darien ct this Is a direct attack] and anyways there are so many layers to living in a society [we live in a society], so many layers of overprivileges and underprivileges and just a lot of shit i've been thinking about lately because like. i haven't eaten good chinese food in eleven days. yes, i've been counting. i'm the only nonwhite person in my clinical group. a couple times a week i am the only nonwhite person at a sports practice. my friend [who is also an east-asian woman] were at the same lab table and our white male lab partners would Not Stop stealing our bones [i'm taking an anatomy class]
but yes fuck darien ct and thank you courtney martin