$19.12
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
With her characteristic brilliance, grace, and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis makes the case for the latest abolition movement in American life—the abolition of the prison. As she notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly, the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583225813 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583225811 |
| Author: | Angela Davis |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 106g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 178mm x 126mm |
| Series: | Open Media |
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“As useful an exposition of the current dilemmas of the women’s movement as one could hope for.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review
About The Author
Angela Davis
Over the last forty-odd years, ANGELA YVONNE DAVIS has been active in numerous organizations challenging prison-related repression. Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1944, Davis studied at Brandeis University, the Sorbonne, and with Herbert Marcuse at the Goethe Institute. Her advocacy on behalf of political prisoners, and her alleged connection to the Marin County courthouse incident, led to three capital charges, sixteen months in jail awaiting trial, and a highly publicized acquittal in 1972. In 1998, Davis was one of the twenty-five organizers of the historic Berkeley, California conference “Critical Resistance- Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex.” She is the author of many books, including Are Prisons Obsolete? and The Meaning of Freedom. She currently teaches in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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