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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

12 reviews

bambicat234's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

I can not recommend this book enough. Everyone should read it. It's unique in being told from two perspectives: the perspective of the man himself and the perspectives of the men who got to know him well. You can personally observe his moral, religious, and political transformations throughout his life and especially at the end of it. 
Everything he says here is relevant today in some way or another. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, and Addiction

Minor: Antisemitism, Mental illness, and Racism

sagelikesscats's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

What a easy 5 stars. Informative, relevant, and inspiring. Read this book!!! This book will teach you about racism, classism, radical organizing, and a little bit about Islam. This book has its flaws and Malcom X was pretty misogynistic and antisemitic but still a must for all those who want to learn about racism and activism.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Infidelity, Cursing, Racial slurs, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Drug use, and Racism

Moderate: Police brutality, Antisemitism, and Gun violence

Minor: Mental illness, Terminal illness, Grief, and Lesbophobia

lauren_shilling's review against another edition

dark informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Alcohol, Addiction, Racial slurs, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Gun violence

Moderate: Hate crime and Misogyny

asen123's review against another edition

I might finish it when I’m a bit older. I really wanted to like it, but it was too intense for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Drug use, Racism, Murder, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Classism, Alcoholism, Addiction, Misogyny, Violence, and Police brutality

jourdanicus's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

I wanted to read this as a foundation text for my personal study in race and anti-racism in the US. It definitely fulfilled that for me. Much of what Malcolm X observed is still relevant today, I find. He was a very interesting and important figure in the civil rights era, and I feel that his time on Earth was cut much, much too short.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, and Racism

menomica's review against another edition

informative reflective tense slow-paced

What I am trying to say is that it just never dawned upon them that I could understand, that I wasn’t a pet, but a human being. They didn’t give me credit for having the same sensitivity, intellect, and understanding that they would have been ready and willing to recognize in a white boy in my position. But it has historically been the case with white people, in their regard for black people, that even though we might be with them, we weren’t considered of them. Even though they appeared to have opened the door, it was still closed. Thus they never did really see me.

This book was. Dense. And a lot. But it did what it was supposed to do. Give an insight on the mind of Malcom X. Honestly, he’s pretty cool, when he’s not talking about women, or jewish people (dear god was that man antisemitic). 

I also really loved how the book helped to give insight on the ideals of race and civil rights at the time. Seeing how multiple civil rights movements worked together and also how they disagreed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Antisemitism, and Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs, Violence, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Gun violence and War

michaelion's review

challenging dark funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

Aside from the early 1900s slang, I would consider this a contemporary autobiography. Everything said in this book 57 years ago could have been said by someone yesterday. You don't have to look real hard to see things really have not changed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Addiction, Classism, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Slavery, Ableism, Bullying, Cursing, and Death of parent

Minor: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Rape

maggie_atwood's review

challenging emotional inspiring slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Islamophobia, Drug use, Drug abuse, Cursing, Confinement, Alcohol, and Addiction

I think this should be a must-read for Americans. You’ll unlearn what you’ve been incorrectly taught about Malcolm X in school.

joshsimp's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, and Racism

Moderate: Antisemitism, Hate crime, Murder, and Sexism

Minor: Colonisation, Police brutality, and Racial slurs

lucyy's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Addiction, Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexism, and Trafficking

Minor: Antisemitism, Domestic abuse, Police brutality, and Slavery