The Angela Y. Davis reader

For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theoryand democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstreamdiscourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race haveprofoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracist feminism,critical studies and political struggles. Even for readers who primarily know her as a revolutionary ofthe late 1960s and early 1970s (or as a political icon for militantactivism) she has greatly expanded the scope and range of socialphilosophy and political theory. Expanding critical theory,contemporary progressive theorists - engaged in justice struggles -will find their thought influenced by the liberation praxis ofAngela Y. Davis. The Angela Y. Davis Reader presents eighteen essays fromher writings and interviews which have appeared in If They Comein the Morning, Women, Race, and Class, Women, Culture, andPolitics, and Black Women and the Blues as well asarticles published in women's, ethnic/black studies and communistjournals, and cultural studies anthologies. In four parts -"Prisons, Repression, and Resistance", "Marxism, Anti-Racism, andFeminism", "Aesthetics and Culture", and recent interviews - Davisexamines revolutionary politics and intellectualism. Davis's discourse chronicles progressive political movements andsocial philosophy. It is essential reading for anyone interested incontemporary political philosophy, critical race theory, socialtheory, ethnic studies, American studies, African American studies,cultural theory, feminist philosophy, gender studies.… (more)