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Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

6 reviews

erezbalvanonyiske's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Pedophilia, Racism, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Torture, and Sexual assault

jessmbark's review

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is by far one of the best memoirs I have ever read. It mixes poetry with history and has an instantly recognizable voice. A true must-read if you want to understand Black history.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Death, Xenophobia, and Sexism

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

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

nashxra's review

adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Racism, and Pregnancy

sumactots99's review

challenging dark hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

“But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave,” (p. 262).

“I guess i hummed the Blues too early, and spent too many midnights wailing to the rain,” (p.159)

“I want to be real,” (‘culture,’ p. 154).

“I mean, after the chains that get entangled in the grey of one’s matter, after the bars get stuck in the hearts of men and women, what’ is left?” (‘Leftovers— What Is Left,’ p. 146).

“Nobody in the world. Nobody in history has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them,” (p. 139).

“White people’s fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably because they think about what they would do were they in our place. Especially the police, who have done so much dirt to Black people. When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear,” (p. 65).

“They can see in your eyes a thousand nightmares that they have made come true,” (‘Rhinoceros Woman,’ p. 63)

“The schools we go to are reflections of the society that created them. Nobody is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will set you free,” (p. 181).

“My roots run deep. I have been nourished well,” (‘momma,’ p. 194).

“It crosses my mind: i want to win. I don’t want to rebel, i want to win,” (p.195).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual violence