I learned more from this than I ever did in high school, where we never talked about anything beyond the Civil War and Reconstruction. I've had to educate myself to fill in the rest, and it's a good thing I did because there was so much left out of history text books, even regarding the time periods that we actually studied. I hope that teens today have the opportunity to read this to see what they've been missing in class.
This book begins in 1415 Europe with the World's First Racist and ends with the Obama administration here in America. A lot of people don't want to hear that racism is the root cause of inequality of all kinds in this country, but it's true. Keeping Black people down to maintain the hierarchy is the cause of everyone's problems because keeping Black people down also keeps everyone else down, too. Unless you're a rich, straight, cis, white, Christian male. The privileged set will say and do anything to keep themselves at the top of the hierarchy, holding on tightly to the power that makes their lives easier and everyone else's miserable. It's all about money. And racism gets them more money as well as power.
This book gives many examples, with source notes, about how this is true throughout the history of America and even before that. The status quo is not good enough. It never was. I really hope we can learn from history and break the cycle. It's long overdue.
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Book is an excellent read however arrived damaged
I heard a podcast with Jason Reynolds and had to buy his book for myself and also as an addition to my young child's library for their future education. I absolutely love that he has made this material so much more accessible to a younger audience! My only complaint is that my book arrived with a bit of damage to the dust cover, not a huge deal but I buying this book new I expected it to be in better condition.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2020
Together, the two make the case that the “construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, whether financially or politically” (p. 245). They begin with a story about the “world’s first racist,” Gomes Eanes de Zurara’s popular 1415 biography of the Portuguese Prince Henry framed the enslavement of Africans as an opportunity to engage in missionary work, to save souls. He positioned the Africans as lesser and the story goes on from there. Kendi believes that people fall into three categories regarding thoughts, beliefs on race—the racist (“the real haters”), the assimilationists (“people who like you (Black people), but only with quotation marks”—because you’re “like” them), and the antiracists (“they love you because you’re like you”). It seems that rarely do we fit into one category. Instead, “over the course of a lifetime and (even over the course of a day), people can take on and act out ideas represented by more than one of these three identities. Can be both, and” (p. 3-4). Reynolds and Kendi tell story after story about how the “racial constructs” of these three groups, over time have influenced how people think. In less than 250 pages, the book covers six hundred years of history, with story after story of how this happened.
DON'T SKIP REYNOLDS' ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AT THE END - it's a call to action. He writes to his audience -
"But I have to warn you:
Scrolling will never be enough.
Reposting will never be enough.
Hashtagging will never be enough.
Because hatred has a way of convincing us that half love is whole. What I mean by that is we--all of us--have to fight against performance and lean in to participation." p. 253
There's so much I didn't know about how my life and thinking as a white woman born and living in the United States have been shaped by the racist beliefs, policies and stories told by others. Yes, I knew some of it, but this book revealed once again and ever more powerfully the troubling depth of this issue.
Highly recommend for high school and college classrooms--the teachers and the students.
Read for yourself and then get it into the hands of students
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2020
Reynolds's writing is superb. Kendi's thinking transforms your world. The book grabs you and holds on to the end.Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2020
Together, the two make the case that the “construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, whether financially or politically” (p. 245). They begin with a story about the “world’s first racist,” Gomes Eanes de Zurara’s popular 1415 biography of the Portuguese Prince Henry framed the enslavement of Africans as an opportunity to engage in missionary work, to save souls. He positioned the Africans as lesser and the story goes on from there. Kendi believes that people fall into three categories regarding thoughts, beliefs on race—the racist (“the real haters”), the assimilationists (“people who like you (Black people), but only with quotation marks”—because you’re “like” them), and the antiracists (“they love you because you’re like you”). It seems that rarely do we fit into one category. Instead, “over the course of a lifetime and (even over the course of a day), people can take on and act out ideas represented by more than one of these three identities. Can be both, and” (p. 3-4). Reynolds and Kendi tell story after story about how the “racial constructs” of these three groups, over time have influenced how people think. In less than 250 pages, the book covers six hundred years of history, with story after story of how this happened.
DON'T SKIP REYNOLDS' ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AT THE END - it's a call to action. He writes to his audience -
"But I have to warn you:
Scrolling will never be enough.
Reposting will never be enough.
Hashtagging will never be enough.
Because hatred has a way of convincing us that half love is whole. What I mean by that is we--all of us--have to fight against performance and lean in to participation." p. 253
There's so much I didn't know about how my life and thinking as a white woman born and living in the United States have been shaped by the racist beliefs, policies and stories told by others. Yes, I knew some of it, but this book revealed once again and ever more powerfully the troubling depth of this issue.
Highly recommend for high school and college classrooms--the teachers and the students.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2023
Book is an excellent read however arrived damaged
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2023
I heard a podcast with Jason Reynolds and had to buy his book for myself and also as an addition to my young child's library for their future education. I absolutely love that he has made this material so much more accessible to a younger audience! My only complaint is that my book arrived with a bit of damage to the dust cover, not a huge deal but I buying this book new I expected it to be in better condition.
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2023
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BLM (Black Lives Matter) などに関心のある人は、ぜひ読んでください。
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