Reviews tagging 'Death'

They Called Us Enemy by Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, George Takei

19 reviews

magpienicky's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Racism

Moderate: Violence, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, War, and Deportation

Minor: Child death and Death

pacifickat's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

"Justice grows out of recognition of ourselves in each other, [...] that my liberty depends on you being free, too;[...] that history can't be a sword to justify injustice or shield against progress, [...] but must he a manual for how to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past."
- Pres. Barack Obama, They Called Us Enemy p. 203

This book should be a national treasure. One of the best historical memoirs I have ever read.  The messages it contains are even more vital and pressing today than ever before.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Racial slurs, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Death, Bullying, Grief, Hate crime, War, Deportation, and Gaslighting

Minor: Police brutality and Violence

Incarceration, racial injustice, generational trauma

mrsduke89's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, Death, and Violence

lidia7's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Confinement

Moderate: Racial slurs, Death, and Grief

Minor: War and Child death

charliereadsalot's review against another edition

4.25

 4.25 STARS

CW: xenophobia, racism, war, mention of death (including of loved ones)

This was a very informative and eye-opening read. As a German we get taught a lot about WWII but usually not about what happened in the States. To be perfectly honest, up until this semester at uni I had never really wondered about repercussions for immigrants from Japan living in the US during the war and after Pearl Harbor, so I also did not know about the internment camps and forced relocations.

I really liked the format of the graphic novel, it made the information and account of what happened much more accessible and memorable. It is important to be aware of history such as this and this book is an easy and quick way for people to educate themelves.

One key aspect that elevated the graphic novel in my opinion is the connection between what happened to Japanese Americans in the 40s and what continues to happen to immigrants and people of various descents to this day in the US. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Death

slavic_bookworm's review against another edition

hopeful sad fast-paced

4.5

Great graphic novel that will teach a lot about American history but I wasn’t the biggest fan of the art.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Racism

booknerd_life's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Blood, Death, and War

warlockdorian's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Hate crime, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Violence, Death, Xenophobia, Bullying, Confinement, Police brutality, and Racial slurs

2busyreading's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, War, and Confinement

Moderate: Death

daycia's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Child death, Death, and War