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Lexi Wants To Know #1: Assata (An Autobiography) (Patreon)

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Hey! Welcome to the first Intelexual Media Book Club discussion board! As you probably know by now, we are reading Assata by Assata Shakur. To make this experience as meaningful as possible, please feel free to contribute to the discussion and try to have the book atleast 3/4 finished by September 16th! 

Now for the two discussion questions:

There are a lot of ways to approach Assata, and I'd like to do so by considering topics that will be explored in content that will be posted to Intelexual Media in September and October - namely education and the criminal justice system.  

Lexi Wants To Know A: In what ways does Assata challenge the type of education offered to her or notice it's failures? How do these moment influence her later actions, beliefs, and relationships? 
Lexi Wants To Know B: How do you define freedom and slavery? How do Assata's recollections of life in custody challenge these definitions? If you have been incarcerated before (or know someone who has been), what could you relate to while reading Assata? 

So for the next 14 days, read up on Assata and post any relevant thoughts or quotes (with page numbers please) that you feel are relevant! 

You can also submit questions to me, and I will be selecting 5-10 to respond to on September 28th. See the full schedule here. 

Happy Reading!


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I'll kick it off! This is in response to Question A. On page 35, Assata writes, "The usual way that people are taught to think in Amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject. For the most part, we receive fragments of unrelated knowledge, and our education follows no logical format or pattern. It is exactly this kind of education that produces people who don't have the ability to think for themselves and who are easily manipulated." This thought comes from Assata's pen when she's thinking about her education in grade school, and I can relate. My literature teachers often didn't connect real historical events to what we were reading in a way that made the books come alive (except for one 9th grade teacher, bless her). This quote also made me think about my 10th grade civics class, where we NEVER discussed current events, even when landmark cases like Brown vs Board of Education were on the lesson plan. We weren't taught how schools had been sneakily re-segregated and underfunded in the decades that followed that decision, and that's bullshit. Like Assata said, that's how mindless zombies with little valid criticism for America are created.