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by Angela Y. Davis

Author:	Angela Y. Davis
Subcategory:	Americas
Language:	English
Publisher:	Seven Stories Press; 1st edition (October 4, 2005)
Pages:	128 pages
Category:	History
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Angela Y. Davis is stunningly clear and straightforward in this set of interviews

She is the author of many books, including Are Prisons Obsolete? and The Meaning of Freedom. She currently teaches in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Angela Y. Davis is stunningly clear and straightforward in this set of interviews. The book reads much like a conversation, and Davis has a gift for letting the reader cut through the standard scholarly BS to join her in the struggle for interconnected freedom. Her insights are extraordinary.

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Abolition Democracy: Prisons Angela Y. Davis . She is the author of many books, including Are Prisons Obsolete? and The Meaning of Freedom.

Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения. Over the last forty-odd years, ANGELA YVONNE DAVIS has been active in numerous organizations challenging prison-related repression. Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1944, Davis studied at Brandeis University, the Sorbonne, and with Herbert Marcuse at the Goethe Institute.

8. Davis, Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005). 9. Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended : Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976, Trans. 12. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000); Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (New York: Penguin Press, 2004).

Empire, Prisons, and Torture or any other file from Books category Throughout these interviews, Davis returns to her critique of a democracy that has been compromised by its racist origins and institutions.

Download Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture or any other file from Books category. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of Americas most remarkable political figures, gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics and prison. Davis talks about her own incarceration, as well as her experiences as "enemy of the state," and about having been put on the FBIs "most wanted" list. Throughout these interviews, Davis returns to her critique of a democracy that has been compromised by its racist origins and institutions.

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Abolition Democracy - Open Media Series . Revelations about policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004

Revelations about policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world’s leading democracy. Read full description. See details and exclusions. See all 10 brand new listings.

Автор: Davis Angela Y. Название: Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture Издательство .

Описание: With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison.

Revelations about . policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world's leading democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of America's most remarkable political figures, gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics and prison

Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world’s leading democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of America’s most remarkable political figures, gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics and prison. Davis talks about her own incarceration, as well as her experiences as "enemy of the state," and about having been put on the FBI’s "most wanted" list. She talks about the crucial role that international activism played in her case and the case of many other political prisoners.Throughout these interviews, Davis returns to her critique of a democracy that has been compromised by its racist origins and institutions. Discussing the most recent disclosures about the disavowed "chain of command," and the formal reports by the Red Cross and Human Rights Watch denouncing U.S. violation of human rights and the laws of war in Guantánamo, Afghanistan and Iraq, Davis focuses on the underpinnings of prison regimes in the United States.

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Onaxan

Angela Y. Davis is stunningly clear and straightforward in this set of interviews. The book reads much like a conversation, and Davis has a gift for letting the reader cut through the standard scholarly BS to join her in the struggle for interconnected freedom. Her insights are extraordinary. You wouldn't normally analyze the prison system as an evolved form of slavery and Jim Crow. Davis even goes as far as to find strong connections in the sexualized torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib to similar sexualized lynchings of blacks. This book has opened my eyes to many things, including how sexual abuse is legalized in state penal systems, which then feeds into similar abuse in federal prisons and helps create a reciprocal relationship of the two facilitating each other's inhumane practices. She has a remarkable insight for connecting gender and sexual equality, racial equality, and economic equality together to solidify the fact that change must be unified across all levels. The criminal justice and penal institutions must be removed and replaced with something that is actually effective and moral. "Abolition democracy" is the name of this battle.

I enjoy how Davis's insights are reflected in another popular book recently released, "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander. Both books are must-reads, complete eye-openers. My suggestion: study both, and look at the world in new ways.

Bukelv

This book will change the way you see government. Angela Davis is brilliant.

Ynap

A must read for anyone interested in understanding contemporary issues in America and be inspired to act for change. Excellent.

DrayLOVE

Insightful and wide ranging analysis of racism and what we need to do address the power structures that perpetuate this violence in the world.

Wilalmaine

This interview should constitute required reading for anyone interested, at least somewhat, in human rights. She is sharp, thoughtful and experienced. Worth the short time it takes to read.