Reviews tagging 'Violence'

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

29 reviews

mrsduke89's review

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, Death, and Violence

punionrings's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

jmschnepp's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

This edition of They Call Us Enemy is a graphic novel. I have classified it as historic fiction, even though it could be considered a memoir. It tells Takei's story of Japanese's internment following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The information about interment was provided by his father as he was pre-school aged at the time. The rest of the book is the story of George's life in relation to the interment.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Gun violence, and Racism

bellebookstitch666's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, and Deportation

sleepylit's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Racism

warlockdorian's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Hate crime, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Violence, Death, Xenophobia, Bullying, Confinement, Police brutality, and Racial slurs

dragon_lord's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Xenophobia, and War

Minor: Violence

jhbandcats's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

What a powerful memoir. And so ineffably disturbing, that our country has done such horrible things to its citizens as to incarcerate them simply for having a visible heritage. There weren’t any internment camps for Germans or Italians during WWII, just Japanese - because “they” looked different from “us.”

George Takei is a treasure, clever, funny, worldly, sympathetic. This book should be required reading for all Americans of all ages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Bullying, Confinement, Grief, Forced institutionalization, and Violence

nova_juniper's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Important. Informative and beautifully illustrated. Haunting in an unfortunately necessary way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Racial slurs, War, Xenophobia, Confinement, Violence, and Hate crime

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Genocide, Violence, and Islamophobia

Minor: Vomit and Alcoholism

eve81's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Confinement, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and War