Angela Davis
Living Legends
Why Coralie Custos Quatreville recommends Angela Davis
“Angela Davis is undoubtedly one of the most clear-sighted pacifists of the 21st c. And, without a doubt, when it comes to the notion of incarceration, she is a figure we cannot afford to overlook.”
Angela Davis is an American political activist, philosopher and author whose work has shaped how movements think about prisons, race, gender and class. She became internationally known around her 1972 trial, of which she was acquitted, and went on to teach for decades at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies. In 1997 she co-founded Critical Resistance, an organisation dedicated to dismantling the pr
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- Oakland, United States
- Recommended by
- Coralie Custos Quatreville
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- Living Legends
