Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

15 reviews

catsteaandabook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Police brutality, Racism, and Racial slurs

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

firepawreads's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Hate crime, Violence, 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

rhinoceroswoman's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Torture, Police brutality, Forced institutionalization, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Car accident

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

moonyreadsbystarlight's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

 In this book, Assata goes between two times in her life. One, beginning with her time in the hospital after being shot and framed for murder up and another, starting from her early childhood. You see the time she spent in a myriad of prisons in inhumane conditions and going through multiple trials for crimes she did not commit as well as her experience growing up and eventually being in leftist spaces, including the Black Panthers as it is being infiltrated .

So many parts of this nearly read like she was describing the world today -- the police, but also the missteps in organizing for social justice. This is difficult to read, particularly the beginning descriptions of her time in the hospital monitored by white supremacists cops and being in solitary after, but it is absolutely essential reading.

There were a lot of details in the writing that takes this story to another level literarily. She ends some of the chapters with poems that are relevant to the events in the chapter. And the very intentional choices with spelling and grammar, I have a lot of feelings about as well. Many people take language and its rules at face value without questioning it -- Assata uses the language to question and reveal aspects of toxic system and assumption about self and others 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism

ivassavi's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

(2021 Book#25)
4 ⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

suzyreadsbooks's review

reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Violence, Physical abuse, and Torture