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Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

13 reviews

cadybooks's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Racial slurs, Rape, Police brutality, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Grief, Kidnapping, Body horror, Colonisation, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Pregnancy, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Medical content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Abortion

studydniowka's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

Bardzo dosadne świadectwo politycznej uchodźczynie, której udało się zbiec z amerykańskiego systemu penitencjarnego. Historia przemocy ze względu na płeć i rasę, systemowego rasizmu i ucisku kobiety z klasy robotniczej. Bardzo polecam przeczytać, ale jest to mrożąca lektura.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Racism, Violence, Gun violence, Murder, Colonisation, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Slavery, and Torture

katharina90's review

challenging dark funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Throughout her autobiography Assata Shakur offers a radical analysis of interlocking systems of oppression and how they are upheld by the legal injustice system, policing, education and media. This book is as relevant as ever.

Despite the sobering topic and graphic content, Assata's sense of humor and no-bullshit attitude made this a highly entertaining read. I also found it inspiring and hopeful, particularly in regard to her views on activism and the struggle for liberation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Confinement, Gun violence, Police brutality, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Racial slurs and Classism

Minor: Fatphobia

leslie_overbookedsocialworker's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Racial slurs, Racism, and Police brutality

kshertz's review

challenging informative inspiring tense medium-paced

4.0

Wow. I thought I knew her story but I knew nothing. The things this woman has been through. It’s eye opening. It’s horrific. It’s important. I hope everyone gets a chance to read her story and takes her advice to heart. She learned so much. She has much that we can learn from her. This is an essential memoir. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Medical content, Abandonment, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual harassment, Torture, Violence, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Racism

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality and Sexual assault

Minor: Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Alcohol, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, and Racism

attempted gang rape

doomluz's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

A powerful and important read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Torture, Gun violence, Police brutality, and Confinement

Moderate: Sexual assault and Misogyny

henrygravesprince's review against another edition

emotional informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Gun violence, Torture, Confinement, Police brutality, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Medical content, Violence, and Antisemitism

mscalls's review

challenging dark hopeful informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery

grei's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Before I start, please note that I am white, nonbinary, mentally ill, & neurodivergent and that informs how I read this book written by a Black revolutionary woman on her experience with racism.

This book is absolutely beautifully written. It is an autobiography that alternates between a chronological biography of her life and her experience with the u.s. prison & "justice" system. Shakur not only discusses her life & activism but also includes important history that the u.s. school system either lied about or left out to serve their own narrative.

An incredibly important book, perfect for anyone interested in u.s. history, the u.s. prison and/or judicial system, activism and learning to become an activist, and the u.s. Civil Rights Movement of the '60s and '70s.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexism, Medical trauma, Grief, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Xenophobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Hate crime, and Bullying

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Medical content, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Addiction

Minor: Ableism, Violence, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Hate crime, Gun violence, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Blood, and Body shaming

Before I start, please note that I am white, nonbinary, mentally ill, & neurodivergent and that informs how I read this book written by a Black revolutionary woman on her experience with racism. Though I've tagged a myriad of different content warnings, Shakur always describes and discusses them within context of why it's important, and I found that because of that her focus is not on the trauma or pain. She chooses to write about all her experiences as lessons learned along the way, and framing it in that context makes her writing much less emotionally triggering. She never goes into explicit or gory detail, but I put many topics in the "graphic" category because they are discussed thoroughly in ways that if someone is particularly sensitive it could potentially put them in a bad place if they are caught off guard.

This is particularly true of her experience almost getting raped and of her experience being pregnant in prison and trying to attain proper medical care.

The ableism I tagged is solely her use of slurs to describe some of the incompetent people she encounters; I only noticed it three or four times throughout the entire book.