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vi, 370 pages ; 24 cm |
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eth African Americans lcdgt |
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nat Americans lcdgt |
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Blackwell readers
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-348) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Prisons, repression, and resistance -- Excerpts from Angela Davis: An autobiography -- Political prisoners, prisons, and Black Liberation -- Unfinished lecture on Liberation-- II -- Race and criminalization: Black Americans and the punishment industry -- From the prison of slavery to the slavery of prison: Frederick Douglass and the convict lease system -- Racialized punishment and prison abolition -- Part II. Marxism, anti-racism, and feminism -- Reflections on the black woman's role in the community of slaves -- Rape, racism, and the capitalist setting -- Violence against women and the ongoing challenge to racism -- JoAnne Little: The dialectics of rape -- Women and capitalism: Dialectics of oppression and liberation -- The Approaching obsolescence of housework: A working-class perspective -- Surrogates and outcast mothers: Racism and reproductive politics in the nineties -- Black women and the academy -- Part III. Aesthetics and culture -- Art on the frontline: Mandate for a people's culture -- I Used to be your sweet mama: Ideology, sexuality, and domesticity -- Underexposed: Photography and Afro-American history -- Afro images: Politics, fashion, and nostalgia -- Meditations on the legacy of Malcolm X -- Black nationalism: The sixties and the nineties -- Part IV. Interviews -- Coalition building among people of color: A discussion with Angela Y. Davis and Elizabeth Martinez -- Reflections on race, class, and gender in the USA -- Part V. Appendix -- Opening defense statement presented by Angela Y. Davis in Santa Clara County Superior Court, March 29, 1972 -- Select bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
Joy James, "the editor teaches political theory in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she is also Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA)"--Cover. |
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"For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on feminism, anti-racism, political philosophy, and liberation theory. Her analyses of culture, gender, capital and race have profoundly influenced political and social thought, and contemporary struggles. This volume presents interviews, essays, and excerpts from Davis's most important works including her memoir. In four parts -- Prisons, repression, and resistance; Marxism, anti-racism, and feminism; aesthetics and culture; and interviews -- Davis examines progressive politics and intellectualism The extensive introduction by Joy James both provides biographical background and contextualizes the intellectual development of Davis as one of the leading thinkers of our time. The Angela Y. Davis Reader is essential reading for anyone concerned about social justice, Marxism, and critical race and feminist theory."--Provided by publisher. |
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
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African Americans -- Politics and government.
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United States -- Race relations.
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Social classes -- United States.
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African American women -- Political activity.
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Feminism -- United States.
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| Added Author |
James, Joy, 1958- editor.
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| ISBN |
0631203613 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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9780631203612 (paperback ; alk. paper) : $51.00 |
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0631203605 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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9780631203605 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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