The Meaning of Freedom

Name: The Meaning of Freedom
Author: Angela Davis

by Angela Davis

Essays on prison abolition, Black liberation, and emancipatory democratic futures

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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.

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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