Angela Davis
Oakland, United States
Living Legends
Coralie Custos Quatreville: “Angela Davis is undoubtedly one of the most clear-sighted pacifists of the 21st c. And, without a doubt, when it comes to the notion of incarceration, she is a figure we cannot afford to overlook.”
Angela Davis is an American political activist, philosopher and author whose work has shaped how movements think about prisons, race, gender and class. She became internationally known around her 1972 trial, of which she was acquitted, and went on to teach for decades at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies. In 1997 she co-founded Critical Resistance, an organisation dedicated to dismantling the pr
Living Legends · prison abolition · black feminism · anti-racism · political education · social movements · author · academia
Curated by Coralie Custos Quatreville
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