Bücher von Angela Y. Davis

From the Author of WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflictsIn these newly collected essays, interviews and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-Apartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyses today's struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine.Facing a world of outrageous injustice, Davis challenges us to imagine and build the movement for human liberation. And in doing so, she reminds us that 'Freedom is a constant struggle.'

From trailblazing political activist Angela Y. Davis, a major new collection of essays and interviews that argue for a radical rethinking of our prison systemsAn icon of revolutionary politics, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for prison abolition for over fifty years. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis's essays, conversations, and interviews over the years, showing how her thinking has sharpened and evolved even as she has remained uncompromising in her commitment to collective liberation. Davis traces a genealogy of the penal system, from slavery to the prison industrial complex, offering a trenchant analysis of the relationship between the prison system and capitalism, both in the US and on a global scale. Combining decades of analytical brilliance and lessons from organising both inside and beyond prison walls, Davis addresses the history of abolitionist practice, details the unique contributions of women to abolitionist struggles, and offers the radical tools we need for revolutionary change. Powerful and rewarding, filled with insight and provocation, Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, is essential reading for anyone seeking to imagine a world without prisons. 'A woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard' New York Times'She has eyes in the back of our head. With her we can survive and resist' John Berger'Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis: open, relentless, and on time! She is as radiant, she is as true, as that invincible sunrise' June Jordan

"Angela Davis' Autobiographie, 1974 von Toni Morrison erstmals herausgegeben, ist ein Klassiker der Schwarzen Befreiungsbewegung. Nun erlebt das Buch nach fast fünfzig Jahren eine Neuauflage, die beweist, wie aktuell antirassistische, feministische und sozialistische Kämpfe für Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit heute noch immer sind.In Eine Autobiographie beschreibt Angela Davis ihren Lebensweg;erzählt von ihrer Kindheit auf dem sogenannten Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, von ihrer Arbeit mit der Kommunistischen Partei, der Black Panther Party und den Soledad Brothers und wie sie von einer Professorin zu einer der vom FBI meistgesuchten Personen wurde.Als Toni Morrison der damals 28-jährigen Angela Davis vorschlug, ein Buch über ihr Leben zu verfassen, war diese erst skeptisch, wollte der Tendenz, Geschichte zu individualisieren, nicht weiter Vorschub leisten. Und so schrieb sie eine zutiefst politische Autobiographie, die den Blick hinaus in die Welt niemals vernachlässigt.»Ich habe also nicht wirklich übermich selbst geschrieben. Ich habe die Ereignisse meines eigenen Lebens nicht an ihrer persönlichen Bedeutung gemessen. Vielmehr habe ich versucht, das Genre der Autobiographie zu nutzen, um mein Leben im Einklang mit dem, was ich für die politische Bedeutung meiner Erfahrungen hielt, zu betrachten.«Brillant, feurig und mit Nachdruck geschrieben, ist Eine Autobiographie ein unvergesslicher Bericht über ein Leben, das dem radikalen Wandel verpflichtet war und ist."

Im Zuge der Black Lives Matter-Bewegung hat die Forderung nach Abrüstung der Polizei und Abschaffung repressiver Strafrechtssysteme, die - insbesondere in den USA, aber auch weltweit - zutiefst sexistisch, rassistisch und klassistisch geprägt sind, enormen Auftrieb erhalten. Denn die Leidtragenden einer Praxis des staatlichen Polizierens und Wegsperrens sind vor allem Schwarze und Frauen of Color.Allerdings ist die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Abolitionismus kompliziert, da Teile der Frauenbewegung Strafverschärfungen und ein entschiedeneres staatliches Vorgehen gegenüber Tätern sexualisierter Gewalt verlangen. Ein radikaler Feminismus jedoch, so intervenieren die Autorinnen, müsse anerkennen, dass der Versuch, Gewalt durch Gewalt zu stoppen, diese am Ende nur verschärft.Da die Autorinnen - gleichermaßen Wissenschaftlerinnen wie langjährige Aktivistinnen - ihre analytische Brillanz und organisatorische Erfahrung einbringen, ist ihnen ein überzeugendes Plädoyer dafür gelungen, dass Feminismus und Abolitionismus ebenso wenig getrennt voneinander zu betrachten sind wie geschlechtsspezifische, staatliche, häusliche Gewalt oder Militarismus, denen auf Dauer nur mit lokaler und globaler Organisierung gerecht begegnet werden kann.

A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela DavisEdited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully today. Long hard to find, it is reissued now with a new introduction by Davis, for a new audience inspired and galvanised by her ongoing activism and her extraordinary example.In the book, she describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most significant political trials of the century: from her political activity in a New York high school to her work with the U.S. Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and the Soledad Brothers; and from the faculty of the Philosophy Department at UCLA to the FBI's list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Told with warmth, brilliance, humour, and conviction, it is an unforgettable account of a life committed to radical change.

In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists issue an urgent call for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism.As a politics and as a practice, abolitionism has increasingly shaped our political moment, amplified through the worldwide protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a uniformed police officer. It is at the heart of the Black Lives Matter movement, in its demands for police defunding and demilitarisation, and a halt to prison construction. And it is there in the outrage which greeted the brutal treatment of women by police at the 2021 Clapham Common vigil for Sarah Everard.As this book shows, abolitionism and feminism stand shoulder-to-shoulder in fighting a common cause: the end of the carceral state, with its key role in perpetuating violence, both public and private, in prisons, in police forces, and in people's homes. Abolitionist theories and practices are at their most compelling when they are feminist; and a feminism that is also abolitionist is the most inclusive and persuasive version of feminism for these times.Abolition. Feminism. Now!'This extraordinary book makes the most compelling case I've ever seen for the indivisibility of feminism and abolition' Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination'Attentive to histories of organising that are too quickly erased, and alive to new possibilities for working collectively in the present time, this book is as capacious and demanding as the abolitionist feminism it calls for' Sara Ahmed, author of Willful Subjects

A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, and economic equality.