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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

9 reviews

princxporkchop's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

A crucial archive of Black culture and history that's unfortunately weakened at times by its liberal academic sensibilities, particularly with its adherence to respectability politics and the lionization of war criminal Barack Obama.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Misogyny, Police brutality, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Racism, Slavery, Genocide, Hate crime, Death, Classism, Torture, Gore, Grief, Murder, Racial slurs, Violence, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Addiction, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Ableism, Alcoholism, Medical content, and Death of parent

velvetcelestial's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

ephalent's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Classism, Murder, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Gore, Medical content, Death, and Hate crime

Minor: Racial slurs and Infidelity

mourtarymaggots's review against another edition

We were supposed to read this for class but after student complaints the district ruled it wasn’t appropriate for a high school class.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Torture, and Murder

Obviously a book about the Great Migration will include hard to discuss topics. This book does not hold back and is very honest.

ainecrinion's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Xenophobia, Murder, Racism, and Racial slurs

shibaunited's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Hate crime, Gun violence, Sexism, Misogyny, Cancer, Classism, Death, Violence, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Murder, and Medical content

Minor: Homophobia and Gaslighting

laurenleigh's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

I really appreciate how much work went into this nonfiction work about the Great Migration. Wilkerson REALLY did her homework. She has meticulously researched the subject, and I value her wide range of source material. The core of her research is in first-person accounts, but she supplements this beautifully with census data, advertiments from the era, newspaper articles, sociology studies, poetry, and novels. The information was skillfully woven together. But I found the overall reading experience challenging. The first part goes into some really intense details about the horrors Black Americans faced in the Jim Crow South. It felt important to fully understand why it could be dangerous, even life-threatening to stay in the South, but there was some pretty graphic violence. I also felt a little thrown off by the timing, as her three first-person accounts migrated in three different decades. 1930 vs. 1955 were very different times, and I felt my brain had to juggle this, as she bounced around from story to story. I do feel like I learned some valuable things, but the process to do so was difficult at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, Torture, Police brutality, Murder, and Hate crime

Moderate: Pregnancy, Medical content, Cancer, Death, and Child death

Minor: Car accident

ameliec's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Murder, and Racism

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

 📚 This is one of the most engaging nonfiction books I've ever read. Wilkerson's narrative style draws you in immediately.
📚 It's such an incredible account of ordinary people doing something extraordinary. So much of the history we learn is about the exceptional people, and Wilkerson reminds us that history is also written by everyday people.
📚 I never learned about this period of history in school - we never made it much beyond the turn of the century in my classes. We often think of historical events as discrete periods of time, but THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS deftly shows how interconnected everything is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Medical content, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, and Violence