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My thoughts on this will be all over the place, so bear with me.

Assata gets candid in her autobiography about her life, her time as a Black Panther, and everything that led up to her conviction. Her story is raw and will sit heavily on your heart. I had a difficult time getting through this read because of the severity of Assata's treatment during that time. I usually avoid books that go into detail about slavery, Jim Crow, or just the hardships of BIPOC communities in general because I'm a sensitive person, and it upsets me every time. I know they're necessary reads, so when I do read them, it's in tandem with more light-hearted/entertaining books, but that never takes the hurt away. This book is very triggering. Although I think it's a necessary read, there should've been a trigger warning (I don't remember seeing one; correct me if I'm wrong). I was not mentally prepared for the descriptive police brutality Assata suffered and a few other events I'm not gonna mention because I don't want to trigger anybody. Throughout this autobiography, Assata spends some time reflecting on

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Quotes

The following book review first appeared in the Morning Star on 1 September, 2014. It is followed by a selection of important quotes from the book.

Assata Shakur’s autobiography – first published in 1988 and newly republished this year by Zed Books – has lost none of its relevance. It remains an essential text for understanding both the prison-industrial complex and the state of race relations in the US, as well as providing a profound insight into the successes and failures of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s.

Born in 1947, Assata Shakur (then JoAnne Deborah Byron) grew up between North Carolina and New York, experiencing the intense racism that prevailed – and prevails – both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. As a black, working class female, she became acutely aware of the special oppression she and others like her faced. As a college student, she came across activists – especially students from newly-liberated Africa – who challenged her anti-communist prejudices and her internalised stereotypes, and encouraged

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Assata: An Autobiography

Content Warning: use of racially charged language and labels, some descriptions of violence, negative descriptions of and labels for police, and very brief talk of abortion/miscarriage.

Assata Shakur is a Black revolutionary who was born JoAnne Byron in 1947 in New York City. She spent a lot of time as a girl in North Carolina with her grandparents, though. While she spent some time trying to be a grown-up on the streets of NYC when she was just an adolescent, she ultimately went to college and discovered political movements fighting for Black liberation. Traveling to the west coast, Assata discovered different political groups — Latino, Asian, Black — and joined the Black Panther Party back in NYC.

As a member of the BPP, Assata criticized the lack of organization and open sexism in the party and eventually left. At some point, Assata joins the Black Liberation Movement. In the climax that leads to her imprisonment, Assata explains that she was shot by police on the New Jersey turnpike, and the men in the car with her would not fare w