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A review by cwl
BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom by Rinaldo Walcott, Idil Abdillahi
2.0
Being Toronto-focused, I wanted to understand more about the Canadian Black Lives Matter perspective.
Not terribly well written - “The reality is that BlackLife in Canada finds itself being expressed and circumscribed by the demand from Black people that it be a full life and resisted by a set of forces, structures and people that it be something less than a full life.” This is a book that would benefit greatly from additional editing and proofreading. Often complex words are used when simpler ones would have similar impact. Sentences run on far too long - taking me away from the book. In fact, the first chapter takes three paragraphs to explain what its going to be about. Unnecessary.
Passages like this just feel like word soup: “Since 1492, the globe has been embroiled in a conception of the human driven by European man-human conceptuality, understandings and categorizations of the world and thus the globe.”
A topic I genuinely wanted to read about given the local context, but the book did not hold my attention. Perhaps this was overly academic in nature and best served for that audience.
Not terribly well written - “The reality is that BlackLife in Canada finds itself being expressed and circumscribed by the demand from Black people that it be a full life and resisted by a set of forces, structures and people that it be something less than a full life.” This is a book that would benefit greatly from additional editing and proofreading. Often complex words are used when simpler ones would have similar impact. Sentences run on far too long - taking me away from the book. In fact, the first chapter takes three paragraphs to explain what its going to be about. Unnecessary.
Passages like this just feel like word soup: “Since 1492, the globe has been embroiled in a conception of the human driven by European man-human conceptuality, understandings and categorizations of the world and thus the globe.”
A topic I genuinely wanted to read about given the local context, but the book did not hold my attention. Perhaps this was overly academic in nature and best served for that audience.