Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a nationally prominent activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement despite never being an official member of the party. Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interests; she is the founder of Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She is a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department. Her research interests are in feminism, African American studies, critical theory, Marxism, popular music, social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons. Her membership in the Communist Party led to Ronald Reagan's request in 1969 to have her barred from teaching at any university in the State of California. She was tried and acquitted of suspected involvement in the Soledad brothers' August 1970 abduction and murder of Judge Harold Haley in Marin County, California. She was twice a candidate for Vice President on the Communist Party USA ticket during the 1980s.
Series
Books
S'ils frappent à l'aube...
1972
Creative Community Organizing
A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice
2011
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
2022
Angela Davis Speaks!
1971
Abolition Democracy
Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture
2005
Are Prisons Obsolete?
2003
The Meaning of Freedom
And Other Difficult Dialogues
2009
The Prison Industrial Complex
2000
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
1998
If They Come in the Morning
Voices of Resistance
1971
Abolition
Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
2023
Beyond the Frame
Women of Color and Visual Representation
2005
Educação e libertação
a perspectiva das mulheres negras
2018
Lectures On Liberation
2019
Construindo movimentos
Uma conversa em tempos de pandemia
2020
Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Challenge to Racism
1985
Abolizionismo. Femminismo. Adesso. (Feminist)
2023
Racismo no movimento sufragista feminino
2018
Women, Culture, and Politics
1989
Estupro, racismo e o mito do estuprador negro
2018
Women, Race & Class
1981
¿Democracia para quién? Ensayos de resistencia
2023
A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States, Vol. 7
From the Alabama Protests to the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
1951
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
2022
Angela Davis
An Autobiography
1974
Rassismus, Sexismus und Klassenkampf
2022
Feminismos negros. Una antología
2012
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
2015
The Angela Y. Davis Reader
1998
Women & capitalism
Dialectics of oppression and liberation
1971
