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Beschreibung

A powerful collection of essays on justice, liberation, and the global fight for freedom.

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression across history and around the world.

Reflecting on the importance of Black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolition for today's movements, Davis explores the enduring legacies of liberation struggles—from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-apartheid movement. She reveals the profound connections between contemporary movements for justice, from Ferguson to Palestine, demonstrating how seemingly separate struggles are bound together by shared histories, common challenges, and collective aspirations.

Drawing on decades of activism and scholarship, Davis argues that meaningful change is built through solidarity across borders, identities, and generations. Her essays challenge readers to rethink conventional ideas about freedom, democracy, and justice while offering a hopeful vision of movements working together to confront racism, inequality, mass incarceration, militarism, and state violence.

Both an urgent political reflection and an enduring call to action, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle reminds us that progress is never inevitable—it is created through courage, collective action, and an unwavering commitment to human liberation.

A powerful collection of essays on justice, liberation, and the global fight for freedom.

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression across history and around the world.

Reflecting on the importance of Black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolition for today's movements, Davis explores the enduring legacies of liberation struggles—from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-apartheid movement. She reveals the profound connections between contemporary movements for justice, from Ferguson to Palestine, demonstrating how seemingly separate struggles are bound together by shared histories, common challenges, and collective aspirations.

Drawing on decades of activism and scholarship, Davis argues that meaningful change is built through solidarity across borders, identities, and generations. Her essays challenge readers to rethink conventional ideas about freedom, democracy, and justice while offering a hopeful vision of movements working together to confront racism, inequality, mass incarceration, militarism, and state violence.

Both an urgent political reflection and an enduring call to action, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle reminds us that progress is never inevitable—it is created through courage, collective action, and an unwavering commitment to human liberation.

Über den Autor
Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

One of America's most provocative public intellectuals, Dr. Cornel West has been a champion for racial justice since childhood. His writing, speaking, and teaching weave together the traditions of the black Baptist Church, progressive politics, and jazz. The New York Times has praised his "ferocious moral vision." His many books include Race Matters, Democracy Matters, and his autobiography, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud.

Frank Barat is a human rights activist and author. He was the coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine and is now the president of the Palestine Legal Action Network. His books include Gaza in Crisis and Corporate Complicity in Israel's Occupation.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Introduction by Frank Barat
[Forthcoming]

Foreword by Alice Walker
[Forthcoming]

Chapter 1: [Need title]
An interview with Frank Barat

Chapter 2: [Need Title]
September 2014 interview with Angela in Brussels

Chapter 3: [Need Title]
December 2014 interview with Angela in Paris

Chapter 4: On Palestine, G4S and the Prison-Industrial Complex
Angela Davis speech at SOAS in December 2013

Chapter 5: Closures and Continuities
Angela Davis speech at Birkbeck University in December 2013

Chapter 6: Policing the Crisis Today
Angela Davis speech at Goldsmith College

Chapter 7: From Michael Brown to Assata Shakur, America's Racist State Persists
Angela Davis article in The Guardian

Chapter 8: Feminism and Abolition
Angela Davis speech at University of Chicago

Chapter 9: Political Activism and Protest from the 1960s to the Age of Obama
Angela Davis Speech
[Still needs to be transcribed]

Acknowledgements

Notes
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781608465644
ISBN-10: 1608465640
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Davis, Angela Y
Redaktion: Barat, Frank
Zusammengestellt: West, Cornel
Hersteller: Haymarket Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 190 x 134 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Angela Y Davis
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2016
Gewicht: 0,209 kg
Artikel-ID: 104746587