Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross

5 reviews

peachani's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Hate crime, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Police brutality, Transphobia, Death, Misogyny, and Rape

Minor: Sexual harassment, Suicide, Excrement, Homophobia, Infertility, Vomit, War, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child death, Classism, Colonisation, Deadnaming, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, and Racial slurs

nrhilmer's review

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Racism, Slavery, and Hate crime

Moderate: Rape, Police brutality, and Sexual violence

yaelm's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Self harm, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Kidnapping, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, Transphobia, Violence, Ableism, Body shaming, Confinement, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Torture, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt

decklededgess's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

trigger warnings: rape, assault, suicide, depression, murder, forced sterilization, sexism, homophobia, racism, violence

Most of the triggers are mentioned in passing and not described in detail. The impact of these acts is definitely expounded on to explain how such events impacted history and the lives of the women and non binary people mentioned throughout the book.

A heartbreaking yet inspiring account of Black women and gender non conforming people who changed the course of history in America. This was super informative and adds to the wealth of Black history I've been reading up on. This certainly fills out a lot of the holes in the historical accounts considering women and Black people are consistently left out due to their "lack of relevance" or whatever weak excuse there is.
I did find that the book tended to focus more on the general history surrounding the women instead of detailed accounts of their lives and accomplishments but I think this book is meant more as a survey and a jumping point to start researching the names over a comprehensive guide of history itself. I really appreciated this.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Abortion, Biphobia, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Trafficking, Transphobia, and Violence

aqtbenz's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, Torture, Suicide, Slavery, Sexual violence, Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, Murder, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, and Hate crime