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maple_dove's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Excrement, and Vomit
Moderate: Police brutality
Incarceration (graphic), Harassment (graphic) (I don't remember the CWs well)moonylovesstars's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
inspiring
relaxing
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Powerful but I think I’d like the paperback better than the audiobook.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
vaniavela's review against another edition
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Slavery, and Violence
Moderate: Child death, Death, and Police brutality
foreverinastory's review against another edition
emotional
informative
medium-paced
5.0
Thank you to Penguin Teen and Netgalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
This collection of non-fiction poems is a great start into digging into what happened during the 1960s and the Civil Rights Movement. Filled with figures you'll recognize and some you might have never learned about. And We Rise is a short but powerful history that makes us reconcile the US's history we've been taught and what actually happened.
The collection of poems are beautiful rendered. I loved how they each flowed into each other, but we also can see how distinct events had impact. At the end, there's a historical timeline and that was extra helpful since there were some times I forgot the dates. Which is more about my brain trying to process everything and less about the writing here.
I loved the emotions these poems brought forth. Even though we are somewhat removed from the events since there's no primary character narrating to us, you still feel the despair, the hopelessness, the determination and perseverance of Black Americans in this.
This collection would be a great addition in classrooms or for people educating themselves. I read this along with The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, which is only enhancing the collective messages of these books. Highly recommend them all.
CWs: Racism, racial slurs, mentions of slavery/slaves, murder, lynching, police brutality, death, violence.
This collection of non-fiction poems is a great start into digging into what happened during the 1960s and the Civil Rights Movement. Filled with figures you'll recognize and some you might have never learned about. And We Rise is a short but powerful history that makes us reconcile the US's history we've been taught and what actually happened.
The collection of poems are beautiful rendered. I loved how they each flowed into each other, but we also can see how distinct events had impact. At the end, there's a historical timeline and that was extra helpful since there were some times I forgot the dates. Which is more about my brain trying to process everything and less about the writing here.
I loved the emotions these poems brought forth. Even though we are somewhat removed from the events since there's no primary character narrating to us, you still feel the despair, the hopelessness, the determination and perseverance of Black Americans in this.
This collection would be a great addition in classrooms or for people educating themselves. I read this along with The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, which is only enhancing the collective messages of these books. Highly recommend them all.
CWs: Racism, racial slurs, mentions of slavery/slaves, murder, lynching, police brutality, death, violence.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, and Murder
cielo_reads's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
First Impressions: Short collection of artfully juxtaposed poems centered around the civil rights movement.
I remember when I first learned about Claudette Colvin a few years ago. I felt exactly how the author mentioned in her notes, shocked and upset that I didn’t know her name or face. It’s really special for me to see the way this information has moved from adult nonfiction (Push Out: The Criminalization of Black Girls in School by Monique Morris) to young adult nonfiction here and soon kids nonfiction. The way we learned about Rosa Parks will be the way the youth (and therefore everyone) knows about Claudette Colvin. Americans tend to be spoon-fed peaceful rhetoric about MLK as if he wasn’t still assassinated. Having the full truth about the civil rights movement rather than being allowed information through a narrow lens is very important. It helps us to think critically about race relations in this country and how much we are not taught about in school. And as history tends to repeat itself it prepares us for what might happen again.
This book can be used to introduce the unflinching truth about racism and the civil rights movement in America and what we are often not taught about in schools.
I remember when I first learned about Claudette Colvin a few years ago. I felt exactly how the author mentioned in her notes, shocked and upset that I didn’t know her name or face. It’s really special for me to see the way this information has moved from adult nonfiction (Push Out: The Criminalization of Black Girls in School by Monique Morris) to young adult nonfiction here and soon kids nonfiction. The way we learned about Rosa Parks will be the way the youth (and therefore everyone) knows about Claudette Colvin. Americans tend to be spoon-fed peaceful rhetoric about MLK as if he wasn’t still assassinated. Having the full truth about the civil rights movement rather than being allowed information through a narrow lens is very important. It helps us to think critically about race relations in this country and how much we are not taught about in school. And as history tends to repeat itself it prepares us for what might happen again.
This book can be used to introduce the unflinching truth about racism and the civil rights movement in America and what we are often not taught about in schools.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Slavery