Assata Shakur, arrested in the early 1970s for killing a Caucasian state trooper from a shootout in New Jersey. She lived some years in her life in prison until she escaped to Cuba. Escaped to write her intake on the situation at hand and her life. She evolved from JoAnne Chesimard to Assata Shakur for a reason. The reason to stand politically to fight off the society who believed that black could not identified as beautiful, they pertained no rights to healthcare and equal stance in politics. Assata Shakur’s autobiography displayed her past discretions as a woman additionally a black woman. First I will discuss how before she named herself Assata Shakur, her childhood reflected who she identified then as Joanne Chesimard. The first part
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After she ran away from home, she decided to look for jobs so that she could take care of herself. When she found work as a counter girl and waitress in a cafeteria in Brooklyn, New York she encounter sexual harassment and harsh treatment. While working her manager would harass her. She present this notion by stating, “Every time he told me to move faster [I] tried until it seemed that it wasn’t humanly possible …Then [I] noticed he was always brushing against me. His hands were always ‘accidentally’ touching my behind” (Assata 102). She presented in her statement that she continually suffered sexual harassment and working in harsh conditions because of the two factors, branded black and a …show more content…
She visited an event for the Republic of New Afrika that existed of people who resided in the South-eastern states of America. Her experience while visiting the event evoked a sense of welcoming to a place she never exposed to. She describes a part of her experience by stating, “Little girls running and laughing, their heads wrapped with gales, tiny little boys wearing tiny little dashikis” (Assata 183). Another part of the event also provided substance by stating, “People calling each other names like Jamal, Malik, Kisha, or Aiesha” (Assata 183). Her experience at the event demonstrated how people of color embraced their natural hair and the cultural that they lost because of the bonds of slavery inhibiting them to retain their connection to parts of Africa
After she ran away from home, she decided to look for jobs so that she could take care of herself. When she found work as a counter girl and waitress in a cafeteria in Brooklyn, New York she encounter sexual harassment and harsh treatment. While working her manager would harass her. She present this notion by stating, “Every time he told me to move faster [I] tried until it seemed that it wasn’t humanly possible …Then [I] noticed he was always brushing against me. His hands were always ‘accidentally’ touching my behind” (Assata 102). She presented in her statement that she continually suffered sexual harassment and working in harsh conditions because of the two factors, branded black and a …show more content…
She visited an event for the Republic of New Afrika that existed of people who resided in the South-eastern states of America. Her experience while visiting the event evoked a sense of welcoming to a place she never exposed to. She describes a part of her experience by stating, “Little girls running and laughing, their heads wrapped with gales, tiny little boys wearing tiny little dashikis” (Assata 183). Another part of the event also provided substance by stating, “People calling each other names like Jamal, Malik, Kisha, or Aiesha” (Assata 183). Her experience at the event demonstrated how people of color embraced their natural hair and the cultural that they lost because of the bonds of slavery inhibiting them to retain their connection to parts of Africa