Angela Davis
American scholar, activist, and former Communist Party member whose trial and acquittal in 1972 made her a global symbol of radical politics. Women, Race & Class analyzes the intersections of those three systems of oppression. Are Prisons Obsolete? made the case for prison abolition.
Works
- Women, Race & ClassInterlocking systems of racism, sexism, and classism in American women's oppression
- Are Prisons Obsolete?Prison system as tool of racial control; case for abolition over reform
- Abolition DemocracyPathway toward abolishing carceral systems and building liberatory democracy
- Blues Legacies and Black FeminismBlack female blues singers' political consciousness and resistance within patriarchal culture
- The Meaning of FreedomEssays on prison abolition, Black liberation, and emancipatory democratic futures