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Indocumentados (Canceled) by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
46 reviews
8675309mp's review against another edition
2.75
Graphic: Racism and Cursing
Moderate: Cancer, Abandonment, Deportation, and Colonisation
Minor: Self harm, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcoholism
moon_peach's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, Police brutality, and Suicidal thoughts
bedtimesandbooks's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, Cursing, Addiction, Racism, Chronic illness, Deportation, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Classism, Murder, Infidelity, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Cancer, and Suicidal thoughts
mzynda's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Deportation
annamay1021's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Racism, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Cancer, Deportation, Confinement, Police brutality, and Grief
avery_lehman54's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness
Moderate: Cancer, Police brutality, and Self harm
Minor: Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Slavery, Panic attacks/disorders, Deportation, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Infidelity
emmehooks's review against another edition
4.5
This book is a mix of deeply personal fears and experiences, narrative reporting, and community building as a radical act of self-preservation and existence.
Graphic: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Classism, Deportation, Medical content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Cancer, Chronic illness, Mental illness, and Police brutality
Moderate: Addiction, Grief, War, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Sexual harassment, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Infidelity
spark_879's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Deportation, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Fatphobia and Suicide attempt
savvylit's review against another edition
5.0
One aspect that is discussed thoroughly in this book is the exploitation of undocumented workers by their so-called employers. In her chapter on Ground Zero, for instance, Villavicencio discusses the fact that many of the first responders on September 11th were undocumented. She gets to know a group of folks who were instrumental in the debris cleanup at Ground Zero. All of them now experience financially and physically devastating chronic diseases as a result of the harsh chemicals & carcinogens they were exposed to on the (underpaid) job.
Another key topic that Villavicencio explores is the myriad ways that being undocumented affects mental health. For example, she becomes deeply involved in the lives of families whose fathers are on the brink of deportation but have taken sanctuary in local churches. Though the children are still able to see their father, they struggle with the fact that they're forced to live apart. Some of the children she gets to know even begin to dissociate as they struggle to process their new, fraught realities.
This book isn't entirely about untold suffering and exploitation, however. It is also about solidarity, hope, radical joy, and the myriad ways that the undocumented support each other. And Villavicencio bears witness to it all - with passion, rage, and deep understanding.
I truly believe that The Undocumented Americans should be required reading for all who identify as American.
Graphic: Hate crime, Deportation, Grief, Medical content, Police brutality, Racism, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Mental illness
younganna's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Self harm, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness