Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe

11 reviews

_lish_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

bessjoyce's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation

livcashmere's review against another edition

informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

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Moderate: Death, Racism, Violence, and Colonisation

jesselopod's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.5

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Graphic: Cultural appropriation and Colonisation

Moderate: Genocide, Racism, Murder, and War

jade_luu's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Graphic: Racism and Colonisation

gzevs's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

4.0

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Graphic: Colonisation

keeganrb's review

informative medium-paced

4.0

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Graphic: Genocide, Racism, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Murder and Colonisation

camoo3032's review against another edition

informative sad slow-paced

3.75

Extremely informative. One of the books that I think everyone should read

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Forced institutionalization, and Colonisation

cozylifewithabby's review

informative slow-paced

I don't know how to rate this. This book explores how actual Australian Aboriginal people lived versus what is taught in Australia and around the world. It criticizes English colonists and their written representation of the Aboriginal people as it diminished their agricultural, fishing, governmental, and civil developments. An important read. Very educational, but also unfortunately dry if you don't enjoy reading about agriculture. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gaslighting, and Colonisation

Moderate: Murder

littlewishling's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

A must read to help decolonize the history I learnt as a child. Although it’s a bit repetitive, Pascoe provides tonnes of references that I look forward to digging into.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Colonisation