Editing Assata Shakur (section)

===Books===
In 1987 she published ''[[Assata: An Autobiography (book)|Assata: An Autobiography]]'', which was written in Cuba. Her autobiography has been cited in relation to [[critical legal studies]]<ref>Farley, Anthony Paul (March 2001). "Symposium Critical Legal Histories: Lilies of the Field: A Critique of Adjudication". ''Cardozo Law Review'' '''22''', 1013.</ref> and [[critical race theory]].<ref>Farley, Anthony Paul (Fall 2005). "Going Back to Class? The Reemergence of Class in Critical Race Theory Symposium: Essay: Accumulation", ''Michigan Journal of Race & Law'' '''11''', 51.</ref> The book does not give a detailed account of her involvement in the BLA or the events on the New Jersey Turnpike, except to say that the jury "[c]onvicted a woman with her hands up!"<ref name=bb>{{cite book|last1=Burrough|first1=Bryan|title=Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence|date=2016|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group|isbn=9780143107972|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PAvTCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA239|language=en}}</ref><ref name="nelson"/> It gives an account of her life beginning with her youth in the [[Southern United States|South]] and New York. Shakur challenges traditional styles of literary autobiography and offers a perspective on her life that is not easily accessible to the public.<ref name="Hames-Garcia">{{cite book|last1=Hames-Garcia|first1=Michael|title=Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice|date=2004|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|location=Minneapolis|isbn=0816643148}}</ref><ref name="Perkins">{{cite book|last1=Perkins|first1=Margo|title=Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties|date=1999|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|location=Jackson|isbn=9781578062645}}</ref> The book was published by Lawrence Hill & Company in the United States and Canada but the copyright is held by [[Zed Books]] Ltd. of London due to [[Son of Sam law|"Son of Sam" laws]], which restrict who can receive profits from a book.<ref name="ravo">Ravo, Nick (October 13, 1987). "[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/13/nyregion/officials-can-t-confirm-chesimard-is-in-havana.html Officials Can't Confirm Chesimard Is in Havana]", ''The New York Times'', Section B; Page 3, Column 5.</ref> In the six months preceding the publications of the book, Evelyn Williams, Shakur's aunt and attorney, made several trips to Cuba and served as a go-between with Hill.<ref name=mcq>McQuiston, John T. (October 12, 1987). "[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/12/nyregion/fugitive-murderer-reported-in-cuba.html Fugitive murderer reported in Cuba]", ''The New York Times'', Section A; Page 1, Column 1. Retrieved on June 1, 2008.</ref> Her autobiography was republished in Britain in 2014<ref name="guard">{{cite news |last1=Adewunmi |first1=Bim |date=July 13, 2014 |title=Assata Shakur: from civil rights activist to FBI's most-wanted |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/13/assata-shakur-civil-rights-activist-fbi-most-wanted |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> and a dramatized version performed on [[BBC Radio 4]] in July 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08y24f9|title=BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, Assata Shakur - The FBI's Most Wanted Woman, Episode 4|website=BBC}}</ref>

In 1993 she published a second book, ''Still Black, Still Strong'', with [[Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad|Dhoruba bin Wahad]] and [[Mumia Abu-Jamal]].

In 2005 [[SUNY Press]] released ''The New Abolitionists'' ''(Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings,'' edited and with an added introduction by Joy James, in which Shakur's ''Women in Prison: How We Are 1978'' is featured.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sunypress.edu/p-4133-the-new-abolitionists.aspx|title=The New Abolitionists|website=www.sunypress.edu|access-date=April 19, 2018}}</ref>