Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

6 reviews

corsetedfeminist's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

5.0

This book isn’t fun, but it is painfully necessary. 
Every page of it further takes apart the story that white women during slavery were quietly on the sidelines, letting the men deal with the buying and selling of people. Instead, it offers continued evidence that women were not only bystanders, but open participants in every part of slavery- the buying, the selling, the abuse, the treating of people as simply economic investments. Whether it’s young women being given enslaved persons as gift by their parents to ensure their economic independence from their husbands or women running auctions in their backyard, they were fully aware of what was happening. The chapter of how enslaved women were used as wet nurses broke me, especially in the discussion of how white women would make sure that their chosen slaves woman was pregnant at the proper time to be a wet nurse. 
I personally think that all white women, but especially southern white women, should read this book to face up to how white women have upheld racism from the beginning, using Black people (and other marginalized groups) as tools to try to escape the sexism they face instead of banding together to destroy the social structure all together. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Colonisation

princxporkchop's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

spicewitch's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Trafficking, and Colonisation

wolf013's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Hate crime, and Miscarriage

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

adrigodebison's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.5

This book should be required reading. Not only does it have vast amounts of information and documentation, but it is really well written. 
(I would also suggest looking at the content warnings)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape

c100's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation

Moderate: Rape and War