Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

This Place: 150 Years Retold by Sonny Assu, Katherena Vermette, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Jen Storm, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, David A. Robertson, Brandon Mitchell, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Richard Van Camp, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, Chelsea Vowel

12 reviews

daniellekat's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, and Colonisation

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Murder, and War

barbarella85's review

informative reflective sad

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, and Colonisation

battybookworm's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

This was mainly an informative text about Indigenous history in Canada. It's beautifully illustrated and each other tells a compelling part of their history. Some specific ones that stood out to me were Rosie and the fight and speech against The Mackenzie Pipeline. Much of the book feels like a jumping off point, and I now have a list of other pieces to check out or historical events/figures to look into. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

An incredible collection of indigenous Canadians' histories. Each comic starts with an author blurb and a timeline of events present in or influencing the story. Canada's history of abusing indigenous people is sickeningly similar to how things have gone for the native people of the US. Whether you're familiar with indigenous history of Canada or want to start somewhere, this is an excellent read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

Minor: Sexual harassment

Residential schools, forced removal of indigenous children from their homes

achingallover's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

maryjames's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

spinesinaline's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

This was a beautiful collection and I think the first collaborative graphic novel collection I’ve ever read. It was so cool to see all the different styles of art and colours, even from the same artist in different stories. 

I also loved that it was so personal, with each author sharing what inspired them to write the story before we got into it. It provides context and a connection between the author and their characters as well as with the reader as it instills more importance in why this story is important to tell. 

While I was familiar with some events like the potlatch ban, Sixties Scoop, protests over the pipelines, and identification tags for Inuit, there were many names I was unfamiliar with so I’m grateful for this introduction and inspired to learn more about each of these stories! 

Also glad that I’ve now got many more authors and illustrators on my list to check out their other works! I’ve previously read Katherena Vermette and David A. Robertson, and have several others already on my TBR, so always happy to see their names come up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Colonisation

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Racial slurs, and Grief

Minor: Suicide

shieldbearer's review

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, and Cannibalism

betweentheshelves's review

emotional informative fast-paced

4.0

Each of the stories in this book includes a timeline highlighting important events for the Native Canadian population, which means I learned a lot! This is a nonfiction graphic novel, so it reads different than fiction, which isn't a bad thing. For me, it just means slowing down to ensure that I really get everything that the book is offering.

For the most part, I enjoyed the art styles in this book and the writing helped in bringing these events to life. If you want to incorporate more Native history into a classroom, I think this book would work really well!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Child abuse and Police brutality

notthatlibrarian's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Grief

Moderate: Police brutality, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and Murder