Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

26 reviews

guinness74's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

It is absolutely unconscionable that I took this long to complete the trilogy of this excellent work. Everything about it is amazing and it should be commended to anyone interested in the Civil Rights movement. Rep. Lewis has given his heart and soul to this project and the artwork delivers it with a stark vision that is ideal for the content. I highly recommend all 3 books but this one really drives home the realities of all that transpired in Lewis' life and the movement that continues to change a nation. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

tangleroot_eli's review

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

(Review of all 3 volumes) These aren't easy books to read, but they're important. Perhaps envisioned as a snapshot of where racism stood in the 40s-60s and how far we've come, right now the series reads like a blueprint for what US citizens of conscience will need to do as the government erodes civil rights for people of pretty much every identity and police and private violence continues to run rampant (and seems to increase every day).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Child death, Racial slurs, Murder, and Police brutality

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Medical content

thesaltiestlibrarian's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Stalking, Torture, Grief, Hate crime, Blood, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Murder

erinmjustice's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Racial slurs, Child death, and Hate crime

anniefwrites's review

dark informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

Another informative, moving graphic memoir of John Lewis’s life. I especially appreciated how he and the other authors lifted up the stories of women in the movement in all three books because they are so often ignored. The imagery is not for the faint of heart, but it is really the next best thing for a generation who didn’t grow up watching the movement on television or participating in it directly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Racism, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Cursing

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, and Violence

sweetmusic22's review

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

4.0

I wish this book wasn't too long

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Slavery

brookey8888's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Such and important read. I think people forget just how recent this was. I learned a lot like I didn’t fully know what Bloody Sunday was. Just all these people were/are so strong and amazing. This book made me so mad and sad, but also hopeful for the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Police brutality

kayleyhyde's review

emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Police brutality

Moderate: Death and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault

ehmannky's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is by far the best of this trilogy of graphic memoirs, and this is high praise given that I think that the other two are some of the best that the genre has produced. There is so much death and violence and pain in this one, so much suffering, and yet Lewis, his co-author, and illustrator do not frame it as a story of despair, but as a story of hope and triumph over the forces of white supremacy and white liberal complacency that would create such a monstrous system that was and is systemic white supremacy in America. It's an incredibly moving work, and I had to stop multiple times to just let the words and the art sink in. It's so much to take in, and I cannot recommend it enough. 

I read the first of this series before much of the social unrest of 2020 occurred, and it struck me now as I finish it just how unfair it is that Lewis never got to rest. That he spent his final years battling the same white supremacists and their ilk that physically beat him as a young man. And how unfair it is that we're creating a world where Black people and their allies continually have to stand up to this. It makes me want to go out and push for a better world, even as it becomes clear that it won't happen within my lifetime. Which is what I hope John Lewis would have wanted. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, Medical content, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, Death, Car accident, and Blood

Minor: Sexism