Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

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

7 reviews

the_reading_wren's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

A powerful memoir and insightful context to George Takei’s work.

In case this is helpful for anyone else with visual processing disorders or dyslexia: I found the font hard to read (it’s all caps and small), but the illustrations are monochrome so I could use my tinted overlay to help me read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, War, and Deportation

Moderate: Child death, Blood, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Vomit, Medical content, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

pacifickat's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

"Justice grows out of recognition of ourselves in each other, [...] that my liberty depends on you being free, too;[...] that history can't be a sword to justify injustice or shield against progress, [...] but must he a manual for how to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past."
- Pres. Barack Obama, They Called Us Enemy p. 203

This book should be a national treasure. One of the best historical memoirs I have ever read.  The messages it contains are even more vital and pressing today than ever before.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racial slurs, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Hate crime, Grief, Gaslighting, War, and Deportation

Minor: Violence and Police brutality

Incarceration, racial injustice, generational trauma

markwillnevercry's review against another edition

informative sad fast-paced

4.5

I wanted to read this graphic novel for a while, but never had time or could not get it and as with many things that you wait for a while to read - you start to suspect that it will be not as good as you want it to be. However, this was good. I did, however, take a pretty long time that this was the story by George Takei, but that is just because I do not read author names. This was really well written and was very informative. The US sucks.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Pregnancy, War, and Deportation

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

i really "enjoyed" reading this (its hard to say you enjoyed reading a book that revolves around war, racism, etc.). similar to others, the only issue i had was discerning when it went back in time or changed to a different setting. i really enjoyed the art style though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Grief, War, and Classism

doriandelioncourt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, and Grief

yourlocallibrarian's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: 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: Bullying, Confinement, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, and Grief