Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

2 reviews

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

This book is very important at a time when the Christian Right is actively trying to ban discussion and study of racial and queer issues in schools. I have a master’s in history, so I knew most of the content the author discussed. History was my favorite subject in high school, and I thought my teachers did a pretty good job. Even so, if not for my advanced study, I think I would struggle a lot more to understand trends and cause and effect.

I felt that the author wasn’t very good at discussing class issues, even though he clearly cared about them. It’s frustrating that he describes capitalism in such an uninformed way, defining it as people making products people want. Given the rest of the intense research in the book, that part felt weak. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Slavery, Colonisation, Racial slurs, Violence, Murder, Gore, Blood, Pandemic/Epidemic, Racism, War, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Cursing, Xenophobia, Pedophilia, Classism, Torture, Sexual violence, Grief, Violence, Sexual content, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, and Blood

Minor: Police brutality, Infidelity, Suicide, Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholism, Ableism, and Pregnancy

Lynching

dreamerfreak's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Child death, Gore, Racism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Slavery, War, Colonisation, Death, Genocide, and Cannibalism