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Intelexual Media Book Club Vote #1

  • Assata by Assata Shakur 25
  • Barracoon: The Story of The Last "Black Cargo" 18
  • 2018-08-19
  • —2018-08-25
  • 43 votes
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For the inaugural month of the Intelexual Media Book Club, we're deciding between two nonfiction books about the black experience. 

1. Assata: An Autobiography (Assata Shakur)

Originally published in 1982, this compelling autobiography will blow you away. Assata is a black revolutionary currently a fugitive of the FBI living in Cuba, and this book outlines why.

Read Length: 274 Pages

2. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Zora Neale Hurston)

The manuscript for this book went unpublished for 87 years. When finally printed earlier this year, it quickly became a bestseller. The story is told from the point of view of Cudjo Lewis, the last slave brought from Africa to the US. It is also told in his vernacular. 

Read Length: 137 Pages

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