Download or read book The Angela Y Davis Reader written by Joy James and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1998-12-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracist feminism, critical studies and political struggles. Even for readers who primarily know her as a revolutionary of the late 1960s and early 1970s (or as a political icon for militant activism) she has greatly expanded the scope and range of social philosophy and political theory. Expanding critical theory, contemporary progressive theorists - engaged in justice struggles - will find their thought influenced by the liberation praxis of Angela Y. Davis. The Angela Y. Davis Reader presents eighteen essays from her writings and interviews which have appeared in If They Come in the Morning, Women, Race, and Class, Women, Culture, and Politics, and Black Women and the Blues as well as articles published in women's, ethnic/black studies and communist journals, and cultural studies anthologies. In four parts - "Prisons, Repression, and Resistance", "Marxism, Anti-Racism, and Feminism", "Aesthetics and Culture", and recent interviews - Davis examines revolutionary politics and intellectualism. Davis's discourse chronicles progressive political movements and social philosophy. It is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary political philosophy, critical race theory, social theory, ethnic studies, American studies, African American studies, cultural theory, feminist philosophy, gender studies.

Download or read book Summary of Angela Y Davis s Women Race Class written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-29T22:59:00Z with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The debate about slavery has continued to resurface throughout the decades, and historians have continued to argue about what it actually meant to be a slave. The most recent books have failed to address the experiences of Black women during slavery. #2 The typical female slave was a houseservant, but in reality, the majority of slave women were field workers. The oppression of women was identical to the oppression of men. #3 While the slave system treated women as second class citizens, it also made sure to exploit their reproductive capabilities. Because slave women were not mothers, their children could be sold away from them. #4 The slaveowner would calculate the yield of his slaves in terms of the average rates of productivity he demanded. Women were generally rated as full hands, unless they had been assigned to be breeders or sucklers.

Download or read book Summary of Angela Y Davis s Angela Davis written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-09T22:59:00Z with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was alone with Helen hiding from the police, and I was grieving over the death of someone I loved. Two days earlier, in her house in Los Angeles' Echo Park, I learned about the Marin County Courthouse revolt and the death of my friend Jonathan Jackson. #2 My life was now that of a fugitive, and fugitives are constantly paranoid. I had to learn how to elude him, outsmart him, and be worthy of my ancestors who had waited for nightfall to cover their steps. #3 I had to move quickly. The police were swarming around me and my friends. I knew that if a full-fledged search were conducted, Helen and Tim’s place would not be safe. I had known them for a number of years, and although they were not members of any movement organization, they had a history of radical political activity. #4 I was finally ready to hole up in Las Vegas, until the search for me intensified. I had to leave and meet with my friend David Poindexter in Chicago.

Download or read book Summary of Angela Y Davis s If They Come in the Morning written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-07T22:59:00Z with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 There has been a long history of Americans trying to figure out how to deal with unjust laws and the oppressive social order that they emanate from. The conservative uses visions of impending anarchy to justify his demand for absolute obedience. The liberal always seeks redress through electoral channels. #2 The Underground Railroad was a series of illegal activities conducted by many people, both Black and white, to rescue fugitive slaves from the clutches of slave-catchers. #3 The political prisoner’s offense is his political boldness, his persistent challenging of fundamental social wrongs fostered and reinforced by the state. He has opposed unjust laws and exploitative, racist social conditions with the ultimate aim of transforming these laws and this society into an order harmonious with the material and spiritual needs and interests of the vast majority of its members. #4 The significance of the executions of Nat Turner and John Brown wasn’t just that they were punished for specific crimes, but that they were used to terrorize the anti-slavery movement as a whole.

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Download or read book Quicklet on Angela Y Davis s Are Prisons Obsolete written by Nicole Bemboom and published by Hyperink Inc. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK Dr. Angela Y. Davis’ Are Prisons Obsolete? is a formative work about prison abolition. She explores and critiques the American penal system. The work is especially significant as the prison system continues to grow. She does not call for prison reform—although conditions will need to be ameliorated during decarceration—but for the eradication of prisons and their replacement with positive systems, such as schools, job training, health care and recreation programs. People have an extremely hard time imagining the world without prisons. We think that they are an inherent and unavoidable part of society. Davis examines the historical, social, racial, economic and political reasons and context that created the prison system, in order to "encourage readers to question their own assumptions about the prison" (Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? pg 10). Davis hopes that once these elements have been exposed it will be possible to "give up our usual way of thinking about punishment as an inevitable consequence of crime" (Davis 112) and imagine a world without prisons. MEET THE AUTHOR Nicole Bemboom is a San Francisco based writer. In addition to writing for the exciting new publisher Hyperink, she covers the best of modern craft and design for the online magazine Handful of Salt. She received her BA in Modern Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK In the chapter "Slavery, Civic Rights, and Abolitionist Perspectives Toward Prison," Davis examines the history of modern prisons, which started developing out of a reform of the corporeal punishment common in England during the American Revolution. Reformers believed that punishment “if carried out in isolation, behind the walls of the prison—would cease to be revenge and would actually reform those who had broken the law” (Davis 41). While this was meant to help people, it ended up growing into a situation in which prisoners were kept in unbearable silence and isolated cells, except while they did hard labor. Davis also shows how prisons took over the institution of slavery, which follows in more detail in the essay “Race and the Prison Sytem.” Davis examines the role of gender in the chapter “How Gender Structures the Prison System.” She finds the prisons reflect the gender structure in society, although she is careful to point out that defining women’s prisons as marginal helps to reinforce the assumption that male prisons are normal. She also details the terror and sexual abuse that is routine in prisons. Buy a copy to keep reading!

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Download or read book Conversations with Angela Davis written by Sharon Lynette Jones and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Angela Davis (b. 1944) was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list in 1970 and after she successfully gained acquittal in the 1972 trial that garnered national and international attention, she became one of the most recognizable and iconic figures in the twentieth century. An outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, she has written extensively about the intersections between race, class, and gender; Black liberation; and the US prison system. Conversations with Angela Davis seeks to explore Davis’s role as an educator, scholar, and activist who continues to engage in important and significant social justice work. Featuring seventeen interviews ranging from the 1970s to the present day, the volume chronicles Davis’s life and her involvement with and influence on important and significant historical and cultural events. Davis comments on a range of topics relevant to social, economic, and political issues from national and international contexts, and taken together, the interviews explore how her views have evolved over the past several decades. The volume provides insight on Davis’s relationships with such organizations as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Communist Party, the Green Party, and Critical Resistance, and how Davis has fought for racial, gender, and social and economic equality in the US and abroad. Conversations with Angela Davis also addresses her ongoing work in the prison abolition movement.

Download or read book Summary of Angela Y Davis s Abolition Democracy written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-22T22:59:00Z with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I wrote an autobiography that was focused on the way I had been shaped by movements and campaigns in communities of struggle. I did not want to write a conventional autobiography in which the heroic subject offers lessons to readers. #2 The American canon of literature has been contested before, and if one considers the autobiography of Malcolm X, which has clearly made its way into the canon, it is not clear whether the inclusion of oppositional writing has really made a difference. #3 While I was in prison, I wrote a paper for the Society for the Study of Dialectical Materialism, which was associated with the American Philosophical Association, entitled Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation. #4 I draw from my background in philosophy to ask questions about contemporary and historical realities that are otherwise foreclosed. I draw particular inspiration from Herbert Marcuse's work Counterrevolution and Revolt, which attempts to directly theorize political developments of the late 1960s.

Download or read book The American Catalogue of Books 1866 1871 with Supplement containing names of learned societies and their publications 1866 1871 written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American catalogue of books original and reprints published in the United States written by James Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Gender and Politics in the Age of Letter Writing 1750 2000 written by Máire Cross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters have long been an outlet for political expression, whether they articulate the personal politics of the daily routine or the political views of individuals who witness or participate in dramatic events. In addition, letters can be unusually revealing records of the relations between men and women. Though letters have frequently been studied as a privileged space for literary, social, and cultural expression, the three-dimensional relationship of politics, gender, and letters has not been the focus of an entire volume. The nineteen essays in this collection examine how the gendered nature of political literacy is revealed over a 250-year period through letter writing, whether the writer is famous or unknown, the wife of a prominent politician or activist, a political prisoner or political militant. Ranging wide in terms of subject matter and geography, the contributors examine correspondence that ponders familial concerns, as well as letters providing political commentary on the effects of war or revolution on everyday life. Among the impressive group of international scholars are Jim Allen, Clare Brant, Edith Gelles, Jane Rendall, and Siân Reynolds.

Download or read book Jefferson County Historical Society Magazine 2018 written by James L. Glymph (ed.) and published by Jefferson County Historical Society (WV) Magazine. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Membership Lists, pages 5 -15, have been moved to the back of the Magazine.

Download or read book Wall Tappings written by Judith A. Scheffler and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2002 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking historical and international anthology of women's prison writings.

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