'Although Davis's writing in the Reader is at times flat and workmanlike, the anthology gradually reveals her humanistic vision in wonderful gestures and acute observations' Phillip M. Joy James has provided a great service in pulling together and making accessible for the first time in a single volume Angela Davis's seminal writings, revealing at once the considerable range of her insightful intellectual contributions across politics, philosophy, and culture.' David Theo Goldberg, Arizona State University Since her imprisonment in the early 1970s hers has been a voice of principle on behalf of the rights of the incarcerated. 'Over the past thirty years Angela Davis has stood as a courageous voice of conscience on matters of race, class, and gender in America.

In 1994, she received the distinguished honor of an appointment to the University of California Presidential Chair in African American and Feminist Studies.By Angela Y.

She has spent the last fifteen years at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she is now Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness, an interdisciplinary doctoral program, and of feminist studies. She also has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, Vassar College, the Claremont Colleges and Stanford University. Davis Reader Are Prisons Obsolete? a new edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Meaning of Freedom.ĭavis’ teaching career has taken her to San Francisco State University, Mills College and the University of California, Berkeley. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is the author of nine books, including Angela Davis: An Autobiography Women, Race, and Class Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday The Angela Y. She has an international scholarly reputation and has made original contributions in social and political philosophy, critical theory, African American studies, feminist philosophy, and cultural studies (popular music and photography). She is a living witness to the historical struggles of the contemporary era and her areas of work include the complex relationship between gender, race, and class oppressions, as well as critical studies of incarceration. Over the years she has been active as a student, teacher, writer, scholar, and activist/organizer.

Davis is a prolific, wide-ranging, and highly influential philosopher and public intellectual. Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S.

The angela davis reader