Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

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

28 reviews

kgartung's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Graphic: Racism and Forced institutionalization

punionrings's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Racism, War, and Violence

tinathedrifter's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.0

George Takei recounts the experience of being interned during WWII through the optimistic lens of his childhood. It’s a really poignant and tragic and hopeful story. I felt he tried too much to make aphorisms about America but it works well as a book for young adults.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and War

sleepylit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Racism

mcmartini's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Forced institutionalization

qgg's review

challenging emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

This is a true gem. I never learned about the Japanese incarceration camps when I was in school. In fact, I only learned about them in the last 10 years. It is a shameful stain on our history that they happened at all. We are lucky to have a voice as public as George Takei’s telling his story. Young people are especially lucky to have this story in comic form. 

This graphic novel is well-paced to absorb the information. It is also gorgeously illustrated. For a story told in black and white, the drawings are outlined and shaded beautifully. The shapes Harmony Becker uses in layers to shade her work add visual texture and interest. 

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Content Warnings

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

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

thecharnelraven's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, and Bullying

Minor: War

booksandteatime's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Forced institutionalization, and War

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