Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

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

13 reviews

jeggert10's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Violence, Classism, Drug abuse, and Murder

Minor: Medical content, Addiction, Drug use, Cancer, Abandonment, Hate crime, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Car accident, Pregnancy, Slavery, and Death

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

cboll's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative slow-paced

4.25

It’s extremely fitting that this novel won a Pulitzer Prize. Isabelle Wilkerson is amazing and I’ll read anything she writes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Hate crime, Murder, and Racism

Minor: Racial slurs, Slavery, and Medical content

jaiari12's review against another edition

informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Violence, Murder, Racism, Hate crime, and Slavery

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, Medical content, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Classism, and Grief

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

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, and Murder

Moderate: Medical content, Slavery, and Death

Minor: Infidelity and Cancer

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

eva_v's review

challenging informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Racism, and Hate crime

Moderate: Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Medical content, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Physical abuse

As a European I found this a very informative read regarding an important movement and period in American history. It also helps to explain much of the current problems and attitudes in American society. I was greatly inspired and moved by the characters and their difficult journeys, even though some parts were (very) hard to read. Would wholeheartedly recommend.

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

clarabooksit's review

emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical content and Infidelity