Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

10 reviews

talonsontypewriters's review

informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Physical abuse, Suicide, Gun violence, Violence, Torture, Confinement, Child death, Medical trauma, Genocide, Colonisation, Gore, Forced institutionalization, and Ableism

Minor: War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pedophilia, Rape, Car accident, Animal death, Mass/school shootings, and Infidelity

hexedmaiden's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

One of the best books about ghosts. As someone who does believe or at leasts wants to believe the possibility of ghosts I loved the way that Colin Dickey talks about how we the living make these places haunted more than any ghost could. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, and Racism

Moderate: Colonisation, Child death, and Genocide

Minor: Sexual violence, War, and Rape

varo's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

Dickey does a phenomenal job balancing ghosts, history, and the overlooked. As a white (or white-passing) man, he is surprisingly thoughtful in his depictions and inclusion of racial tension and violence, as well as of sexism. He consciously includes narratives beyond the white majority and casts light upon the ways those same majority narratives downplay, distract from, and distort the stories of Black people and women. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, and Racism

jjames_mal's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

One of the best books I read on the history, present, and possible future of ghost stories in America. I'm a bigger sucker for the sociological and anthropological roots and forces that drive ghost stories so this book was a complete treat. This book really doesn't shy away from the dark history of most of the ghost stories and I absolutely loved the thesis that "even if we could dispel [ghost stories] once and for all, we need them too badly".

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Colonisation, Sexism, and Racism

ninjamuse's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery and Racism

Minor: War, Hate crime, Suicide, Sexual violence, and Violence

softanimal's review against another edition

informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Death, Colonisation, Slavery, and Racial slurs

Minor: Confinement, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

j_squaredd's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

Moderate: Racism

Minor: War

miserablesplendor's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

geeky_spider's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

Anyone who find ghost stories interesting and wants to look into why, should read this book immediately! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Racism

Moderate: Rape

This is a history book that asks the question why these topics are or are not seen in ghost stories.

malloryfitz's review against another edition

informative reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Torture, Suicide, Slavery, Racism, Murder, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Genocide, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence