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They Called Us Enemy - Expanded Edition by Steven Scott, George Takei, Justin Eisinger
25 reviews
laurenmiller100's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Confinement, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, and Trafficking
Moderate: Hate crime, Violence, and War
pacifickat's review against another edition
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.
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 traumahmetwade's review against another edition
4.0
Minor: Child death, Confinement, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, War, and Deportation
livlamentloathe's review against another edition
4.0
I implore everyone to read this book. Or anything similar to understand the actions of our government. Not to “understand” as in “agree with,” but to acknowledge how bloody and disreputable our history is. The Germans weren’t the only villains of the second world war.
Graphic: Confinement, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Colonisation, War, and Deportation
markwillnevercry's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Pregnancy, War, and Deportation
paguroidea's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Hate crime
steveatwaywords's review against another edition
4.25
Takei is clear where his youthful memory ends and his historical research begins, stepping back from his moments in these internment camps--some painful, some sentimental--to offer us political background, court cases, speeches of key congressional figures. He also offers us a stark look at the transition back, not just for his family, but for tens of thousands of others. He also offers several pages of historical records and photographs which solidify the illustrated text.
The story is well told, personal and focused. And its sincerity is genuine, of course. If it finds difficulty in navigating the narrative it is in finding the right balance between offering the complexity of the political situation around him and streamlining its presentation for the format of the work. There are no easy answers to it: hopefully, what he reveals is enough to provoke readers to search more. In this way, Takei and his team may have done well to offer directions for readers new to this dark history to explore further.
Even so, for youthful readers, perhaps those as early as ages 8 or 10, this is powerful stuff. For adults who find this book, it's a worthwhile underscoring of our past to better understand its many consequences today.
Graphic: Confinement
Moderate: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, War, and Deportation
bellebookstitch666's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, War, and Deportation
alexisgarcia's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Grief, War, and Classism
boba_nbooks's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Confinement, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, and War