Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

18 reviews

agnela's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

 An informative graphic novel focusing on Japanese American citizen experiences after Japanese attacked Hawaii. Cruelty, racism, prejudice... And yet somehow it spreads hope and knowledge, it asks us to never forget, do not allow past mistakes be repeated.
I'm not American, we talked a lot about what happened in Europe in the early 20th century, so little of us would have any knowledge that the same that happened in soviet Russia or Hitler ruled Germany happened in America. We need to spread the word, we need to know the facts, the histories, we need to hold each other accountable. And yet we allow the same things to happen today. How despicable 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Xenophobia

Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, Violence, Grief, and Forced institutionalization

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

hmetwade's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Child death, War, Racial slurs, Confinement, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Hate crime

jacob_dion's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Confinement, Racial slurs, Grief, Racism, and War

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

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

i really "enjoyed" reading this (its hard to say you enjoyed reading a book that revolves around war, racism, etc.). similar to others, the only issue i had was discerning when it went back in time or changed to a different setting. i really enjoyed the art style though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Grief, Racial slurs, Classism, Hate crime, Racism, Bullying, Child abuse, 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

jhbandcats's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

What a powerful memoir. And so ineffably disturbing, that our country has done such horrible things to its citizens as to incarcerate them simply for having a visible heritage. There weren’t any internment camps for Germans or Italians during WWII, just Japanese - because “they” looked different from “us.”

George Takei is a treasure, clever, funny, worldly, sympathetic. This book should be required reading for all Americans of all ages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Bullying, Confinement, Grief, Forced institutionalization, and Violence

asexualandriod's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Racism, Racial slurs, and Grief