Assata Shakur

Hon är känd som en av grundarna till Svarta befrielsearmén, medlem av Svarta pantrarna och gudmor till hiphoplegenden Tupac Shakur.År 2013 blev hon den första kvinnan någonsin att tas upp på listan över FBI:s mest efterlysta terrorister. Nu kommer Assata Shakurs skakande självbiografi för första gången på svenska.Livstidsdomen för mordet på en vit delstatspolis 1973 delade USA. Fallet Assata blev en symbol för rasism och polisbrutalitet. Där kritiker såg en hänsynslös mördare såg Assatas försvarare ett offer för en systematisk och rasistisk kampanj för att kriminalisera svarta befrielseorganisationer.I sin personliga och politiska självbiografi skildrar Assata de erfarenheter som fick henne att omfamna ett liv av aktivism. Assata Shakur min historia är ett bidrag till historieskrivningen och den nutida debatten om rasism och diskriminering. Boken intar en självklar plats intill Malcolm X självbiografi och Maya Angelous böcker.Assata Shakur är också känd som Joanne Chesimard. Hon rymde från fängelset 1979 och lever idag i exil på Kuba. FBI erbjuder upp till en miljon dollar för information som kan leda till hennes gripande.Med förord av Angela Davis och Nathan Hamelberg. Assata Shakurs dikter har tolkats till svenska av Athena Farrokhzad och Leandro Schclarek Mulinari.

The author, formerly known as JoAnne Chesimard, relates the formative experiences of her youth that led her to a life of activism in Black nationalist organizations and, eventually, to prison

An essential document of the Black Panther Party written by three leading thinkers and party activists who were jailed following the FBI'S 1969 mandate to destroy the organization "by any means possible."Still Black, Still Strong is partly based upon the 1989 videotape Framing The Panthers by producers Chris Bratton and Annie Goldson. It recounts the stories of Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur, all of whom were arrested and jailed during the COINTELPRO probe of the Black Panther Party.Dhoruba Bin Wahad, who organized chapters of the Black Panther Party in New York and along the Estern Seaboard and worked with tenants in Harlem and on drug rehabilitation in the Bronx, was accused of murdering two officers while still in his teens and imprisoned for 19 years. He always maintained his innocence and won his freedom by forcing the FBI to release thousands of classified documents proving that he had been framed. The justice department eventually rescinded Bin Wahad?s conviction and he was released in 1990, seven months after the documentary premiered.Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist who headed the Black Panther free breakfast program for inner-city school children in Philadelphia, was also accused of the murder of an officer and sent on death-row, where he still is today.Assata Shakur was a college educated social worker in her twenties when she was accused of shooting a cop, then arrested and tortured and denied medical treatment. Her interview was conducted in Cuba where she has been exiled since her escape from a New Jersey women's prison in 1975.Bin Wahad, Shakur and Abu-Jamal offer a little-known history and an incisive analysis of the Black Panthers' original goals, which the U.S. Government has tried to distort and suppress. As one confidential, 1969, memo to J. Edgar Hoover put it, "The Negro youth and moderates must be made to understand that if they succumb to revolutionary teaching, they will be dead revolutionaries."