Analysis Of The Movie Assata An Autobiography

â€Å"Assata: An Autobiography† is written by Assata Shakur and takes place in the 1970’s when Shakur was being charged with several assaults, many of which she did not commit. Throughout her autobiography, Shakur begins telling events in which show how big racism is towards African Americans and later on shows how it occurs with other races and cultures as well, like Native Americans, Chicanos, Asians and Hippies. Shakur makes it clear to the readers how strongly she believes America is a place that contains so much racism by speaking Indirectly. She voices her opinion by using her own language. There are many scenarios where Shakur misspells certain words to show her actual feelings. For example, she has the tendency to misspell America and use a lowercase â€Å"i† rather than a capitalized â€Å"I† when she refers to herself. She does this to show us, the readers, that she feels like a minority and that America is a place where white people will always have a privilege and have rights over blacks. A section that sticks out to me from the book is the way Shakur decides to express her feelings about America. Although she doesn’t tell us straight forward, she expresses it through her choice of spelling certain words. For example, in this case she refers to America as amerika, â€Å"But as a black woman living in amerika, Evelyn understood why it was important and necessary† (49). Shakur does this to symbolize the racism that occurred against blacks with the KKK and the lack of capitalization