Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

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

21 reviews

clarabooksit's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Violence, Murder, Racism, War, Genocide, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Slavery and Child abuse

Minor: Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Rape, and Pedophilia

hunkydory's review

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

opinionsofawolf's review

challenging slow-paced

4.0

Well-organized, thought-provoking, and actually offers some solutions for readers who feel the urge to do something after reading this book to engage with.

Overall, even though I had previously taken a course in Native American History (that's what it was called back then, now it would be called Indigenous History), and I had pursued reading about the AIM of the 1970s on my own, I still found information I had not previously known, especially about colonization efforts by the US in the late 20th and early 21st centuries (and still ongoing).

I do think the Epilogue actually belonged at the beginning- I wanted context for who this author was and her relationships with some of the people mentioned in the book. I also think a clear statement about what position she is speaking from would lend greater clarity to the book.

The chapters in the book are not overly long (it took me about 30 minutes to read a chapter) and they deliver a heck of a lot of information in a short amount of time. An eye-opening book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Slavery, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, and Alcoholism