Conversations with Angela Davis / edited by Sharon Lynette Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Sharon L. (Sharon Lynette), editor.

Series:

Literary conversations series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-.

African American women political activists--Interviews.

African American women political activists.

African American women--Interviews.

African American women.

Civil rights workers.

Women communists.

United States.

Women communists--United States--Interviews.

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

Civil rights workers--United States--Interviews.

Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944---Interviews.

Davis, Angela Y.

Black Panther Party.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxv, 194 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: A Conversation with Angela / Cecil Williams

Interview With Angela Davis / Tony Platt

Complexity, Activism, Optimism: An Interview With Angela Y. Davis / Kum-Kum Bhavnani

Interview With Angela Davis / Louis Massiah

Nappy Happy / Ice Cube

An Interview With Angela Davis / Nina Siegal

Globalism And The Prison Industrial Complex: An Interview With Angela Davis / Avery F. Gordon

Prison As A Border: A Conversation On Gender, Globalization, And Punishment / Gina Dent

Angela Davis / David Barsamian

Politics And Prisons: An Interview With Angela Davis / Eduardo Mendieta

Law And Resistance In The Prisons Of Empire: An Interview With Angela Y. Davis / Eduardo Mendieta

Angela Davis On Free Angela & All Political Prisoners / Livia Bloom Ingram

Angela Davis / Frank Barat

Interview With Angela Davis / Tony Piatt

Angela Y. Davis On What's Radical In The 21St Century / Patt Morrison

Angela Davis: "There Is An Unbroken Line Of Police Violence In The Us That Takes Us All The Way Back To The Days Of Slavery" / Stuart Jeffries

The Radical Work Of Healing: Fania And Angela Davis On A New Kind Of Civil Rights Activism / Sarah Van Gelder.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Conversations with Angela Davis

ISBN:

9781496829573

1496829573

9781496829580

1496829581

OCLC:

1224517192

Publisher Number:

99988356451