Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

5 reviews

cococorycollins's review

informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Genocide, Racism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, and Injury/Injury detail

hunkydory's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, and War

sarah_speaks's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.5

This is a very important and eye-opening book. The author absolutely decimates the founding myths of America and sheds much needed light on a history of settler colonialism and genocide that the United States has worked hard to bury.

I was not the biggest fan of the writing style, and I think this book would have benefited from editing to make sure it maintained a tighter focus on its subject matter. At times the book seemed to skip around between geographic areas or time periods, without making clear who, where and when the narrative was describing.

Five stars for thesis. Four stars for writing style and readability.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Murder, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Rape

larbster90's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

4.25

Fairly academic. The author's argument is well-made, and I learned so many things that should have been covered in U.S. history courses. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Blood, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, and Mass/school shootings

artsydarcy0's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Murder