Women, Culture & Politics

by Angela Y. Davis

Overview

A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, and economic equality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307798503
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/22/2011
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	780,725
File size:	2 MB

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 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.

Table of Contents

On Women and the Pursuit of Equality and Peace

Let Us All Rise Together: Radical Perspectives on Empowerment for Afro-American Women

Facing Our Common Foe: Women and the Struggle Against Racism

We Do Not Consent: Violence Against Women in a Racist Society

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: The Politics of Black Women’s Health

Peace Is a Sister’s Issue Too: Afro-American Women and the Campaign Against Nuclear Arms

Slaying the Dream: The Black Family and the Crisis of Capitalism (with Fania Davis)

Women in the 1980’s: Setbacks and Victories

On International Issues

When a Woman Is a Rock: Reflections on Winnie Mandela’s Autobiography

Children First: The Campaign for a Free South Africa

Finishing the Agenda: Reflections on Forum ’85, Nairobi, Kenya

Women in Egypt: A Personal View

Revolution and Womankind: On Clara Zetkin’s Selected Writings

On Education and Culture

Imagining the Future

Reaping Fruit and Throwing Seed

Ethnic Studies: Global Meanings

Art on the Frontline: Mandate for a People’s Culture

Underexposed: Photography and Afro-American History

Brushstrokes for Social Change: The Art of Rupert Garcia

Editorial Reviews

"The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that positions be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time. In this sense the most difficult challenge facing the activist is to respond fully to the needs of the moment and to do so in such a way that the light one attempts to shine on the present Will simultaneously illuminate the future."

— from the Introduction

"Davis is an articulate and powerful analyst of contemporary culture." — San Francisco Chronicle

"A veteran radical's feisty Views from the barricades...Davis's integrity here will inspire many." — Kirkus

"Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis: open, relentless, and on time! She is as radiant, she is as true, as that invincible sunrise she means means means to advance With all of the faith and all of the grace of her entirely devoted life." — June Jordan

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