Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

11 reviews

directorpurry's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Misogyny, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Death and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: War and Death of parent

elindseyr190's review

informative slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

laurataylor's review

informative inspiring relaxing slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Racial slurs, and Racism

readingelli's review

informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

I love reading about the scientists who lay the foundations for my own journey. Well written, very informative, I learned a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Child death

Minor: Cancer and Miscarriage

chandranolynne's review

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, War, and Racial slurs

outsmartyourshelf's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.0

Whenever I've seen anything about the moon landing or space flight in films or TV, it's men who dominate whether physically carrying out a spacewalk or sitting at a computer in mission control. The average person could be forgiven for not knowing about the huge contribution that women made to the US working for NACA during WWII, the beginnings of NASA, right up to landing a man on the moon & beyond. This is because we were simply never told about them, they had been practically airbrushed out of history.

This book looks at the lives of several African-American women who worked as 'computers' as they calculated complex equations which contributed to the development of better, faster airplanes & eventually the trajectories of launching a rocket into space. Their stories should have been fascinating & I'm not sure if it is just how the book is written, but it was quite difficult to get through as it was rather dry. At the end I didn't feel that I knew anything really about the different women, very little personality came through on the page. It's a real shame as their stories deserve to be told. I may try watching the film instead. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

mandi4886's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Sexism

Minor: Death, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Terminal illness, Mental illness, and Cancer

book_addict's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Racial slurs

fiveredhens's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

1.5

kind of a mix of girlboss and black capitalism

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Ableism, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Racial slurs, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Fatphobia

brookey8888's review

informative inspiring slow-paced

2.5

This honestly was not what I was expecting. If I didn’t listen to the audio book I would have really struggled to finish this. I just felt like we didn’t get to know these women at all. Like it just felt like it was just a history lesson about that time with science thrown in. I just wish I got to learn more about their lives and personality because they are such important women.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexism