Angela Davis: An Autobiography

by Angela Y Davis

Overview

The political activist reflects upon the people and incidents that have influenced her life and commitment to global liberation of the oppressed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780717806676
Publisher:	International Publishers Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/01/1989
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	1,104,819
Product dimensions:	5.49(w) x 8.26(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including Freedom is a Constant Struggle, and Women, Race, and Class, and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Editorial Reviews

Angela Davis has spent more than 50 years working for social justice. This summer, society started to catch up.”
—Ava Duvernay, Vanity Fair

"An activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend.”
—Ibram X. Kendi

“Before the world knew what intersectionality was, the scholar, writer and activist was living it, arguing not just for Black liberation, but for the rights of women and queer and transgender people as well.”
—New York Times

“If anyone is qualified to make an assessment on the current situation, it is Angela Davis. She has spent five decades as an intellectual campaigning for racial justice, yet the causes she has pursued – prison reform, defunding the police, restructuring the bail system – had, until recently, been considered too radical for mainstream political thinking.”
—The Guardian

“As an iconic educator, scholar, and leader in the civil rights movement, Angela Davis is an obligatory add to your list of must-read black authors.”
—O Magazine

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