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Davis, Angela Yvonne was born on January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
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For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracist feminism, critical studies and political struggles. Even for readers who primarily know her as a revolutionary of the late 1960s and early 1970s (or as a political icon for militant activism) she has greatly expanded the scope and range of social philosophy and political theory. Expanding critical theory, contemporary progressive theorists -- engaged in justice struggles -- will find their thought influenced by the liberation praxis of Angela Y. Davis. The Angela Y. Davis Reader presents eighteen essays from her writings and interviews which have appeared in If They Come in the Morning, Women, Race, and Class, Women, Culture, and Politics, and Black Women and the Blues as well as articles published in womena s, ethnic/black studies and communist journals, and cultural studies anthologies. In four parts -- "Prisons, Repression, and Resistance", "Marxism, Anti--Racism, and Feminism", "Aesthetics and Culture", and recent interviews -- Davis examines revolutionary politics and intellectualism. Davisa s discourse chronicles progressive political movements and social philosophy. It is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary political philosophy, critical race theory, social theory, ethnic studies, American studies, African American studies, cultural theory, feminist philosophy, gender studies.
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A collection of her speeches and writings which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, and economic equality.
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Davis, Angela Yvonne was born on January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
Studied under Theodor Adorno, Frankfurt School, 1962. Student, University Paris, 1964. Bachelor magna cum laude, Brandeis University, 1965.
Master of Arts, University California, San Diego, 1968.
Member faculty San Francisco State University. Teacher University California, San Diego, 1968, professor history of consciousness department Santa Cruz, 1991—2008, presidential chair in African American and feminist studies, 1995-1997. Advisory board Prison Activist Resource Center, speaker in field.
Removed from teaching position in philosophy department, University of California at Los Angeles, 1969. On Federal Bureau of Investigation's 10 Most Wanted List, 1970. Captured, tried and acquitted, 1972.
Governor Ronald Reagan vowed she would never teach in University California system Candidate for United States vice president, Communist Party ticket, 1980.
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Member Black Panthers.
D.B. Frank and Sally E. Davis.