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A Decolonial Ecology - Thinking from the Caribbean World by Malcom Ferdinand; Anthony Paul Smith (Translator); Angela Y. Davis (Foreword by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Critical South Ser.
The world is in the midst of a storm. A storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth's ecosystems and its human and non-human commun ...Show more
Abolition Democracy - Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture by Angela Y. Davis
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Open Media Ser.
Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world's leading democracy. It is within this contex ...Show more
Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, Beth Ritchie, Gina Dent
Category: Philosophy and Religion
In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists set out a vital, urgent manifesto for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism. A powerful work from four activist scholars on the need for our thinking on abolitionism and feminism to intersect. As a politics an ...Show more
Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, Beth Ritchie, Gina Dent
Category: Politics
In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists set out a vital, urgent manifesto for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism. A powerful work from four activist scholars on the need for our thinking on abolitionism and feminism to intersect. As a politics a ...Show more
Abolition. Feminism. Now by Gina Dent; Erica R. Meiners; Angela Y. Davis
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Abolitionist Papers
As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment -- halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape are not only the central histories of feminist -- usually queer, anti-capitalist, grassroots, and wome ...Show more
Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1 by Angela Y. Davis
Category: History
An icon of revolutionary politics, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for prison abolition for over fifty years. Abolition- Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis's essays, conversations, and ...Show more
An Autobiography (Angela Davis) by Angela Y. Davis
Category: Biography Memoir
A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully today. It is reissued now with a new introduction by Davis, for ...Show more
Angela Y Davis - An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis
Category: Biography
A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully today. Long hard to find, it is reissued now with a new introduc ...Show more
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Open Media Ser.
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggle ...Show more
Blues Legacies And Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis
Category: Film & Tv
In this book Angela Davies provides the historical, social and political contexts with which to reinterpret the lyrics and performances of Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday.'
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
Category: Classic Fiction
From the Author of WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflictsIn these newly collected essays, interviews and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between s ...Show more
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis; Frank Barat (Editor); Cornel West (Preface by)
Category: Social Sciences
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, ...Show more