Davis, Angela Y

An autobiographical account of the life of Angela Davis, discussing her childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, her political activity in a New York high school, her relationship with the Soledad Brothers, and the political crimes that made her on of the FBI's most wanted fugitives.

A collection of speeches and writings of Angela Y. Davis, African American political activist, that discusses the political and social changes during the seventies and eighties as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, and economic equality.

A series of interviews following the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in which African-American intellectual Angela Davis explores how democracy has been compromised by its systems of oppression as a way to maintain dominance and control.

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

American political activist and university professor, Angela Davis, a social Democrat who was at one time associated with the Black Panther Party and American Communist Party, criticizes the American prison system, maintaining that it strips prisoners of basic human rights.