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This book took me a while to complete, not due to the writer's style, but rather the subject material. Angela Davis goes through intense recollections of the racism she experienced in her young life up to that point. Beginning with her false arrest for murder and flashing back to her childhood and adolescence being the only black family on a primarily white street in Alabama. Scary stuff, but important to hear and read. I want to take my time with this one to take in what was written and what the experience was because it is important. I didn't give this great, important nonfiction book a full five stars because while it is important and shows perspectives many people (white people especially) don't think about, I noticed/understood the biases and blind spots of someone in their 20s writing this book. Politically and culturally Angela Davis has grown and learned more since writing this book and I think I'd like to hear a follow up to this autobiography from her someday.

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4.25

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challenging informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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5.0

Captivating and enlightening. I have read other books by Angela Davis and enjoyed finally reading this memoir she wrote when she was only 28, but had already had more than a lifetime's worth of expierences.

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4.5

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