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Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Tortureby Angela Y. DavisISBN 1583226958 (1-58322-695-8)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture'Book summary: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 worlds leading democracy. 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. 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. [via]More editions of Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture:
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The Angela Y. Davis Readerby Angela Y. Davis , Joy JamesISBN 0631203613 (0-631-20361-3)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Angela Y. Davis Reader'Book summary: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 women'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.
Davis'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. [via]
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Behind the Razor Wire : Portrait of a Contemporary American Prison Systemby Michael Jacobson-Hardy, Angela Y. Davis , John Edgar Wideman, Marc Mauer, James GilliganISBN 0814742408 (0-8147-4240-8)
Hardcover, New York University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Behind the Razor Wire : Portrait of a Contemporary American Prison System'Book summary:More than one million Americans live in federal and state prisons and close to another half million are in local jails. One out of every three young black men is involved in the criminal justice system. To house our ever increasing prison population, the construction of new prisons has become a growth industry in many local and state economies. Yet while prisons are a rapidly expanding feature of America's cultural and political landscape, the people in them, as well as the buildings themselves, remain hidden from public consciousness. Determined to break this silence, Michael Jacobson-Hardy entered the prison system to record the voices and the lives of the people who live and work within its walls.
Behind the Razor Wire continues the tradition of documentary photography by reporting in words and photographs on the conditions in the American prison system. Jacobson-Hardy examines the physical and psychological environments of a range of contemporary correctional institutions and the lives they contain. The foreword by Angela Y. Davis and essays by John Edgar Wideman, Marc Mauer, and James Gilligan, MD make a searing indictment of America's criminal justice system, while offering a framework for understanding the photographs in their historical and cultural context. By recording the faces, the emotions, and the lives of those who live and work in the prison system, Jacobson-Hardy heightens public awareness and promotes dialogue on criminal justice policy.
Behind the Razor Wire creates a visual portrait of prisons and prisoners, and a compelling documentary of how prisoners see themselves and of how in turn they are seen by others.
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Beyond The Frame: Women Of Color And Visual Representationby Angela Davis, Angela Y. DavisISBN 1403965331 (1-4039-6533-1)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond The Frame: Women Of Color And Visual Representation'Book summary:Beyond the Frame explores the importance of visual images in the identities and material conditions of women of color as they relate to social power, oppression, and resistance. The goal of the collection is to rethink the category of visual theory through women of color. It also explores the political and social ramifications of visual imagery for women of color, and the political consciousness that can emerge alongside a critical understanding of the impact of visual imagery. The book begins with a general exploration of what it means to develop a women of color criticism (rather than an analysis of women of color), and goes on to look specifically at topics such as 90s fashion advertisements, the politics of cosmetic surgery, and female fans of East LA rock bands.[via]More editions of Beyond The Frame: Women Of Color And Visual Representation:
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Black Popular Cultureby Angela Davis, Angela Y. DavisISBN 0941920232 (0-941920-23-2)
Softcover, Bay Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Popular Culture'Book summary:The latest publication in the award-winning Discussions in Contemporary Culture series, Black Popular Culture gathers together an extraordinary array of critics, scholars, and cultural producers. 30 essays explore and debate current directions in film, television, music, writing, and other cultural forms as created by or with the participation of black artists. 30 illustrations. [via]
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holidayby Angela Y. DavisISBN 0679771263 (0-679-77126-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday'Book summary:The female blues singers of the 1920s, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, and Bessie Smith, not only invented a musical genre, but they also became models of how African American women could become economically independent in a culture that had not previously allowed it. Both Smith and Rainey composed, arranged, and managed their own road bands. Angela Y. Davis's study emphasizes the impact that these singers, and later Billie Holiday, had on the poor and working-class communities from which they came. The artists addressed radical subjects such as physical and economic abuse, race relations, and female sexual power, including lesbianism. Ma Rainey was well known as a lover of women as well as men, and her song "Prove It on Me" describes a butch woman who dresses like a man and dates women. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism places the fluid sexuality of these women within a larger context of African American artists' attempts to subvert and recreate America. [via]
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Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday: ISBN 0679771263 (0-679-77126-3)
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Clara Zetkin: Selected Writingsby Angela Y. DavisISBN 0717806200 (0-7178-0620-0)
Hardcover, Intl Pub
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De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Centuryby Angela Y. DavisISBN 089608583X (0-89608-583-X)
Softcover, South End Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century'Book summary:The unique Chicana voice of Elizabeth Martinez arises from more than thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment.With sections on women's organizing, struggles for economic justice. and the Latina/o youth movement, De Colores Means All of Us will appeal to readers and activists seeking to organize for the future and build new movements for liberation.[via]More editions of De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century:
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.by Herbert Aptheker, Angela Y. DavisISBN 0806515422 (0-8065-1542-2)
Hardcover, Carol Publishing Group
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Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Readerby Adrien Katherine Wing, Angela Y. DavisISBN 081479338X (0-8147-9338-X)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader'Book summary:Global Critical Race Feminism is the first anthology to focus explicitly on the legal rights of women of color around the world. Containing nearly thirty essays, the book addresses such topical themes as responses to white feminism; the flashpoint issue of female genital mutilation; the intersections of international law with U.S. law; "Third World" women in the "First World;" violence against women; and the global workplace.
Broadly representative, the reader addresses the role and status-legal and otherwise-of women in such countries as Cuba, New Zealand, France, Serbia, Nicaragua, Colombia, South Africa, Japan, China, Australia, Ghana, and many others. Authors include: Aziza al-Hibri, Penelope Andrews, Taimie Bryant, Devon Carbado, Mai Chen, Brenda Cossman, Lisa Crooms, Mary Dudziak, Isabelle Gunning, Anna Han, Berta Hernández, Laura Ho, Sharon Hom, Rosemary King, Kiyoko Knapp, Hope Lewis, Martha Morgan, Zorica Mrsevic, Vasuki Nesiah, Leslye Obiora, Gaby Oré-Aguilar, Catherine Powell, Jenny Rivera, Celina Romany, Judy Scales-Trent, Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, J. Clay Smith, and Leti Volpp.
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The House That Race Builtby Cornel West, Angela Y. Davis , Toni Morrison, Wahneema LubianoISBN 0679760687 (0-679-76068-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salemby Cornel West, Angela Y. Davis , Toni Morrison, Wahneema LubianoISBN 0345384202 (0-345-38420-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem'Book summary:This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Condé brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls "a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary Nanny of the maroons," who, schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah, is arrested for healing members of the family that owns her.
CARAF Books:Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
This book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agencY.
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Imagining Medea: Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Womenby Rena Fraden, Angela Y. DavisISBN 0807849847 (0-8078-4984-7)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imagining Medea: Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women'Book summary:This ain't no Dreamgirls, Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs. Her expectations are grounded in reality, tempered, for example, by the fact that women are the fastest growing population in U.S. prisons. Still, Jones believes that by engaging incarcerated women in the process of developing and staging dramatic works based on their own stories, she can push them toward tapping into their own creativity, confronting the problems that landed them in prison, and taking control of their lives.
Rena Fraden chronicles the collaborative process of transforming incarcerated women's stories into productions that incorporate Greek mythology, hip-hop music, dance, and autobiography. She captures a diverse array of voices, including those of Jones and other artists, the sheriff and prison guards, and, most vividly, the women themselves. Through compelling narrative and thoughtful commentary, Fraden investigates the Medea Project's blend of art and activism and considers its limits and possibilities for enacting social change.
Rhodessa Jones is co-artistic director of the San Francisco-based performance company Cultural Odyssey and founder of the Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women. An award-winning performer, she has taught at the Yale School of Drama and the New College of California. [via]
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Policing the National Body: Race, Gender and Criminalizationby Anannya Bhattacharjee, Committee on Women, Population, and Environment, Angela Y. DavisISBN 0896086607 (0-89608-660-7)
Softcover, South End Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Policing the National Body: Race, Gender and Criminalization'Book summary:[via]Aggressive law enforcement is devastating women of color and their communities. Yet the mainstream reproductive rights movement, largely dominated by white women and consumed with protecting the right to abortion, has failed to respond adequately to the policing, criminalization, and incarceration of large numbers of poor people and people of color.
Policing the National Body places issues of race, class, and gender at the center of its reproductive rights and social justice agenda by focusing on a key concern among women of color and poor communities today: the difficulty of maintaining families and sustaining community in the face of increasing criminalization.
Women of color have independently articulated a broad reproductive rights agenda embedded in issues of equality and social justice, while keenly tuned to the state's role in the reproduction and regulation of women's bodies. In an effort to protect their reproductive rights, they have challenged coercive population policies, demanded access to safe and accessible birth control and asserted their right to economic and political resources to maintain healthy children.
Policing the National Body discusses the policing of bodies by examining the experiences of women prisoners, women with AIDS in correctional facilities, women in systems of prostitution, immigrant women, women of color, and young women with a keen awareness of their multiple identities and oppressions. This groundbreaking anthology is one the few works to link the reproductive rights and anti-enforcement violence movements.
Jael Silliman teaches at the University of Iowa, and is co-editor of Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment and Development. Anannya Bhatacharjee teaches at New York University and is a co-founder of SAMAR (South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection). Both belong to the Committee on Women, Population and the Environment (CWPE), a multi-racial alliance of feminist activists, health practitioners and scholars.
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Policing the National Body: Sex, Race, and Criminalizationby Jael Silliman, Committee on Women, Population, and Environment, Angela Y. Davis , Anannya BhattacharjeeISBN 0896086615 (0-89608-661-5)
Hardcover, South End Pr
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Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Challenge to Racismby Angela Y. DavisISBN 0913175110 (0-913175-11-0)
Softcover, Kitchen Table/Women of Color Pr
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Women, Culture, and Politicsby Angela Y. DavisISBN 0679724877 (0-679-72487-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women, Culture, and Politics'Book summary: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. [via]
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Women, Race and Classby Angela Y. DavisISBN 0394713516 (0-394-71351-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women, Race and Class'Book summary:Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's movement in the context of the fight for civil rights and working class issues. She uncovers a side of the fight for suffrage many of us have not heard: the intimate tie between the anti-slavery campaign and the struggle for women's suffrage. She shows how the racist and classist bias of some in the women's movement have divided its own membership. Davis' message is clear: If we ever want equality, we're gonna have to fight for it together. [via]
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