Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

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

6 reviews

badaimsyndrom's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Child abuse, Genocide, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Violence, Death, War, and Xenophobia

Minor: Mass/school shootings, Confinement, Murder, and Kidnapping

nrhilmer's review

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Hate crime, Colonisation, Child death, Genocide, and Racism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Torture, Animal death, Addiction, Rape, Sexual assault, and Alcoholism

larbster90's review

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

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

mrsdarcylynn's review

challenging informative sad medium-paced

5.0

If you grew up in the US or any other imperial power, this text is so important. There was so much within the book that I was fully unaware of. The author challenges myths and assumptions about the formation on the United States. My only complaint is that the book often makes large time jumps between 1776 and 1880ish, sometimes at lightning speed. This often threw me off- I wish many of the chapters had stuck to one topic or time period. Even with this (minor) criticism, I felt like the book made powerful arguments, was highly educational, and spoke the truth of as many indigenous peoples as possible. I am grateful to this author for writing this book, it is much needed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Murder, Rape, Child death, Child abuse, War, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Racism, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Suicide, and Torture

natalierobinld's review

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

My mind was really blown by the amount of history that had been obscured, avoided or blatently lied about in my American education

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Slavery, Racism, Hate crime, Gun violence, Genocide, and Confinement

junefish's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Torture

This book covers the history of indigenous peoples and the systematic genocide perpetrated against them. It covers a lot of triggering content, but it does not glorify or linger on it.