Reviews tagging 'War'

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

69 reviews

whtbout2ndbrkfst's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Racism

Minor: Racial slurs, Violence, and War

magpienicky's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, War, and Deportation

Minor: Child death and Death

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

cozy_academic's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

swhite's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Xenophobia, and War

fioom's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

In every single way this book is beautiful. I as a teen have been interested in our worlds history especially when it's came to WW1 and WW2, and all I can say is that I love seeing the ugly parts of history to be shown.
It brings up a very great conversation on the treatment that Japanese and Japanese-Americans experienced during the second world war. I cried reading this especially toward the end when other issues regarding other immigration issues that are commonly faced by middle Easters and us Hispanic/Latinos. I'm lucky and fortunate enough to say that I as a latina have been lucky enough to have good experience so for the most part but many of our people aren't.

Thank you for this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: War

rhythmofryn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: War

hmetwade's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, War, and Deportation

xread_write_repeatx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, and War

craftingcatlady's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A wonderful and reflective look at George Takei’s childhood, growing up during World War II’s Japanese Internment Camps, and how it helped to shape him into the actor and activist his is today. 

History books look back at history and tells it from an adult’s lenses. But George, as he is talking about his time at the camps, shows us the same history but through the lens and understanding of a child. The contrast’s painted of how he and his siblings handled the situation versus how his parents did, while remaining strong for their children, is striking. 

I have watched Takei as Sulu in Star Trek growing up, and I had no idea the breadth of his acting career, nor the activism he is involved in. Discovering this, adds another layer onto his Sulu character for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Violence, War, and Deportation

Moderate: Racial slurs