Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books 1987
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9781556520747ISBN:1556520743
Description: ISBN 1556520743. Trade Paperback. Tight sound copy in good to very good condition with heavy underlining and margin notes to first half of the text, slight spine cock. Later Printing. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781556520747ISBN:1556520743
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Edition: First Printing Stated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lawrence Hill & Co., Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780882082219ISBN:0882082213
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Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9781556520747ISBN:1556520743
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 320 pages. (320 pages) presents the life story of african american revolutionary, shakur, previously known as joanne chesimard. edition new ed (Paperback) read more
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"Kyle and Ocean read this and raved. I read this and felt a lack of reaction. I don't know what this means. This book fills in the details of the life of a political prisoner, Assata Shakur. Assata was framed for multiple crimes and then housed and abused in the prison system while waiting years and years for crazy, bogus trials to play themselves out. When she was first arrested she was shot in the chest and taken to the hospital. There police officers harrassed and abused her around the clock while she was on the brink of death. This made me the most angry. That there is no safe place.
Assata gave birth while she was in prison. This made me question my ideas about birth. She made it very powerful. She conceived during her trial with her coconvicted, and had the people being like, how in the hell. It was powerful because it is like saying, you can put me in a cage, but I can still create. I can create beauty and life amongst all of this ruin. Woah. It doesn't change how I feel about babies, but it influences how I feel about mothers."
This book was great, almost up there with Malcolm X as far as favorites go. She writes beautifully and this was a great story of strength and unbelievable courage. I wish I could be as strong. She faced enourmous amounts of adversity and didn't seem to let it break her. My only complaint is that I was still left with many questions, like: 1. What really happened on the turnpike that night? 2. Who was Zayd Shakur and what kind of relationship did they have? 3. How did she escape from prison? 4. What ever happened to her sister? 5. Who was her father? 6. What made her a target for the FBI?
I understand that some things can not be revealed because they might be incriminating but I really wanted to know.
This book also opened my eyes, I am not sure why but I was shocked at the way she was completely denied so many of her rights and I was completely shocked by the way they criminalized her and for no reason. As far as the book tells she wasn't one of the major leaders of the movement yet she was targeted. What was most disturbing was that this group of people really just wanted to supply help in many much needed areas and to unify the Black race but they became too progressive in their thinking and successful and because of that they were taken down.
"I read this autobiography back in graduate school in a course on black critical theory taught by the inimitable Catherine John. The story Shakur tells is remarkable, and her thoughts on the corrupt justice and prison system in the United States are spot-on."
"The matter-of-fact transition of an African-American girl into a politically conscious Black Revolutionary woman. So real, so clear, so focused. The fight has always been against capitalism and imperialism, from the beginnings of the slave trade to Reagan's invasions into Latin America (to NAFTA, CAFTA, Plan Colombia, Iraq, Afghanistan...). Assata writes about the resistance that has always existed within these systems of oppression, and every one of her words is encouragement to "carry on the tradition""
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