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. Her books in Turkish translation include Kadınlar, Irk ve Sınıf (Sosyalist Yayınlar, 1993) and Eğer Şafakta Gelirlerse (Agora, 2008).Angela Y. Davis Reader (1998), edited by Joy James. Additionally, her seminal writings have been gathered in The Angela Y. Davis is the author of numerous essays, articles and books, including Women, Race and Class (1983), Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holliday (1999), Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003), Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture and Empire (2005) and most recently, The Meaning of Freedom (2012). Davis is a founding member of “Critical Resistance”, a national movement dedicated to abolishing prisons. A leading supporter of prison abolition, Davis’ ongoing scholarship and public activism targets what she has called the “the prison-industrial complex”, a reference to the privatization of prisons, the increase in imprisoned populations as well as the racism of the criminal justice system in the United States. A well-known political activist, Davis has been an influential voice in some of the most significant social struggles of the post-war period, including her involvement in the civil rights movement, contributions to feminist activism and her long-term critique of the American prison system. Davis is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and the Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California-Santa Cruz.

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