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Angela Y. Davis


Born
in Birmingham, Alabama, The United States
January 26, 1944

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Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a nationally prominent activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement despite never being an official member of the party. Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interests; she is the founder of Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She is a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.

Her research interests are in feminism, Afr ...more

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Average rating: 4.49 · 148,204 ratings · 16,266 reviews · 126 distinct works • Similar authors
Women, Race & Class
4.59 avg rating — 33,953 ratings — published 1981
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Freedom is a Constant Strug...
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
4.51 avg rating — 29,586 ratings — published 2003 — 25 editions
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An Autobiography
4.44 avg rating — 10,694 ratings — published 1974 — 67 editions
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Abolition. Feminism. Now.
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Abolition Democracy: Beyond...
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Blues Legacies and Black Fe...
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Women, Culture, and Politics
4.38 avg rating — 1,667 ratings — published 1989 — 19 editions
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The Meaning of Freedom: And...
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“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
― Angela Y. Davis
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“Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.”
― Angela Davis
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“The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?”
― Angela Y. Davis
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