Reviews tagging 'Racism'

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

45 reviews

uncannydanny's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Rape, Sexual assault, War, Xenophobia, Child abuse, Child death, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Colonisation, Death, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Racism, Alcohol, and Violence

pecsenye's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

This book is very important. You need to know what's in this book, but reading it is going to be painful and will make you reexamine a lot of the framing of history and government and the USA that you've been taught. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Torture and Murder

artsydarcy0's review

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

fogthroughthevalley's review

challenging informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Racism

bookwyrmknits's review

informative

4.0

This is an important book to read, but not an easy one. It's one that really shows how much history books are written by the victors. There are so many historical events that I was taught a super-sanitized version of in school, and so many others that I never even heard about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Violence

Moderate: Racism

jourdanicus's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

This should really be assigned reading for all US American residents... Not much more to say than that. I appreciate Dunbar-Ortiz's straightforward tone about the real aims and outcomes of the colonization of north American territories, as well as the hard work, research, and courage it must take to write against the narrative of colonialist history. This book gives me hope for true change and movement toward dismantling the colonial and imperial state currently in place in the US.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Racism

Moderate: War, Death, Child abuse, and Child death

vonny3492's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Genocide, Colonisation, War, Slavery, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Rape, Racism, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, Misogyny, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, Hate crime, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Cultural appropriation, Alcoholism, and Addiction

eeenou's review

informative slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Murder, and Racism

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

Everyone should read this. I listened to this as a library audiobook, but I will be purchasing a physical copy at some point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Kidnapping

Minor: Abortion and Antisemitism

White supremacy, capital punishment, Eugenics