Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi

45 reviews

achingallover's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Classism, Drug use, Rape, Misogyny, Police brutality, Torture, Sexism, Death, Suicide attempt, Racism, Religious bigotry, and War

ru_th's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: "Are my trousers long enough?” “Is my veil in place?” “Can my makeup be seen?” “Are they going to whip me?” No longer asks herself: “Where is my freedom of thought?” “Where is my freedom of speech?” “My life, is it liveable?” “What’s going on in the political prisons?”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, War, and Xenophobia

srivathsini_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Sexism, Alcoholism, Xenophobia, Racism, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Violence, War, Suicidal thoughts, Mass/school shootings, and Police brutality

morebedsidebooks's review against another edition

4.0

As a title that has continued to be a subject of controversy, it is worth highlighting the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s resources on Persepolis.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Drug use, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Racism, Cursing, Alcohol, Confinement, and Classism

Minor: Homophobia, Infidelity, Rape, and Sexual harassment

This comic also deals with fundamentalism and imperialism, mention forced marriage.

lynxpardinus's review

challenging emotional informative reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Self harm, War, Police brutality, Racism, Xenophobia, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Violence, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Confinement

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Excrement, Infidelity, Sexual content, Alcohol, Classism, Death of parent, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Fatphobia, Rape, Blood, and Body horror

readandfindout's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

4.25

Style/writing: 4 stars
Themes: 4.5 stars
Perspective: 4.5 stars
Art: 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Racism, Suicide attempt, Religious bigotry, Violence, Addiction, Death, War, Misogyny, Sexism, Police brutality, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Child death, Islamophobia, Drug abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Torture and Self harm

jessthanthree's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Racism

garynoplastie's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Murder, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Death, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Torture, Drug use, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, War, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Racism, Alcohol, and Child death

Minor: Infidelity and Pregnancy

aus10england's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense slow-paced

2.5

Uff, this was a real slog to get through. I really admire the author’s courage to tell her story and everything she has been through, but I don’t think it was accomplished well in graphic novel format. I had a card time connecting to the story, which may just be because I can’t relate to what the author has gone through. Just felt like more of a slog to get through than anything. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Xenophobia

Moderate: Racism and Body horror

emma_fukar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Drug use, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Torture, and Racism

Minor: Racism