Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

16 reviews

jarslberg's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Xenophobia, War, Violence, Suicide, Sexual violence, Slavery, Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, Hate crime, Gun violence, and Genocide

lindseychirinos's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Genocide, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, and War

poetskings's review against another edition

challenging sad slow-paced

5.0

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee knocked me sideways. For a history book, I found myself getting shockingly emotional as I read and understood the atrocity committed against Native Americans, who more often than not merely wanted to roam free in the land that they had occupied long before the white man came.

I've had this book on my shelf for a long time and wasn't sure I'd ever get round to it - it's no mean feat to tackle, and at times Dee Brown's writing is a little blunt. Nonetheless this was an emotive plea for an acknowledgement that the white history of America isn't always the right history of America. I will undoubtedly be reading this again.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Murder, and Racism

meganpbennett's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is one of those books that is impossible to rate. It's hard to read, talks of events in brutal ways, and exposes the injustices many Americans are blissfully unaware of. Dee Brown is an exceptional story-teller, incredibly talented in her art. She tells the tales in the oral story telling tradition, which makes the book harder to read, since you have to read it aloud to yourself while reading. It would make a great audiobook. 

A colleague recommended this book to me and anyone else who hasn't read it. And he's right - everyone needs to read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Hate crime, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Torture

Minor: Rape, Alcoholism, and Religious bigotry

junefish's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Medical trauma, Murder, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, and Kidnapping

kabornman's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Grief, Kidnapping, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Trafficking