Reviews tagging 'War'

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

60 reviews

laurenmiller100's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is an essential book. Japanese internment is relatively unknown to so many modern Americans, but George Takei’s powerful story reminds us that this horror took place not too long ago. The adorable art style stands it stark contradiction to the tragedy within the pages, serving to further cement this child’s view of the experience. I am not usually one to cry at books, but this really affected me. Incredibly powerful and moving.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Racism, Confinement, Xenophobia, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Violence, Hate crime, and War

whtbout2ndbrkfst's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Confinement

Minor: Violence, Racial slurs, and War

magpienicky's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Racism

Moderate: Violence, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, War, and Deportation

Minor: Child death and Death

pacifickat's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

"Justice grows out of recognition of ourselves in each other, [...] that my liberty depends on you being free, too;[...] that history can't be a sword to justify injustice or shield against progress, [...] but must he a manual for how to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past."
- Pres. Barack Obama, They Called Us Enemy p. 203

This book should be a national treasure. One of the best historical memoirs I have ever read.  The messages it contains are even more vital and pressing today than ever before.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Racial slurs, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Death, Bullying, Grief, Hate crime, War, Deportation, and Gaslighting

Minor: Police brutality and Violence

Incarceration, racial injustice, generational trauma

cozy_academic's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

swhite's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Xenophobia, and Violence

fioom's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

In every single way this book is beautiful. I as a teen have been interested in our worlds history especially when it's came to WW1 and WW2, and all I can say is that I love seeing the ugly parts of history to be shown.
It brings up a very great conversation on the treatment that Japanese and Japanese-Americans experienced during the second world war. I cried reading this especially toward the end when other issues regarding other immigration issues that are commonly faced by middle Easters and us Hispanic/Latinos. I'm lucky and fortunate enough to say that I as a latina have been lucky enough to have good experience so for the most part but many of our people aren't.

Thank you for this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: War

rhythmofryn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: War

hmetwade's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Child death, War, Racial slurs, Confinement, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Hate crime

xread_write_repeatx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, and Racism