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An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis

honeycoveredpages's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

mike_c's review against another edition

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

rogermckenzie's review against another edition

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5.0

My favourite book. This is one of the things to blame for me developing an interest in politics when I happened to spot a copy of this in a second hand (not even book) shop in Walsall many moons ago

mollymedhurst's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

sunflowerjess's review

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informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

It was really interesting reading this book immediately on the heels of Malcolm X's autobiography. I liked Malcolm X's radicality, but not so much the way he treated women and talked about them. It was so refreshing to read Davis's autobiography - someone just as radical and also feminist. Davis's book was very enlightening, not just about the particulars of her life, but also about police brutality and the history of resistance. I really enjoyed the audiobook, which was read by Davis. 

sapphire's review against another edition

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inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

nadine7's review against another edition

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slow-paced

4.0

cccccarla's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative mysterious medium-paced

5.0

mlatibash's review

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hopeful informative reflective slow-paced
I’ve always wanted to hear Davis’ story from her perspective, so in that sense I’m really glad I read the book. However, I found it a bit clunky and hard to follow at times. I listened to the audiobook so the narration might have been the issue. Either way, an important read. 

kaiguerrero's review against another edition

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5.0

Este libro es una maravilla. No solo narra hechos muy importantes del activismo negro, sino que además tiene una prosa fluída, sobria pero bella. Es imprescindible, de verdad.