Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

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

35 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

midnight_fauna's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Xenophobia and Grief

Minor: Cultural appropriation

bookdrunkard78's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Forced institutionalization, and Xenophobia

emerentina's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Forced institutionalization

agnela's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

 An informative graphic novel focusing on Japanese American citizen experiences after Japanese attacked Hawaii. Cruelty, racism, prejudice... And yet somehow it spreads hope and knowledge, it asks us to never forget, do not allow past mistakes be repeated.
I'm not American, we talked a lot about what happened in Europe in the early 20th century, so little of us would have any knowledge that the same that happened in soviet Russia or Hitler ruled Germany happened in America. We need to spread the word, we need to know the facts, the histories, we need to hold each other accountable. And yet we allow the same things to happen today. How despicable 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia and Police brutality

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Grief

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

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

kgartung's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Forced institutionalization

punionrings's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

tinathedrifter's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.0

George Takei recounts the experience of being interned during WWII through the optimistic lens of his childhood. It’s a really poignant and tragic and hopeful story. I felt he tried too much to make aphorisms about America but it works well as a book for young adults.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and War