For example, Angela is clearly passionate about prison abolition, so instead of repeating her similar points, it would have been better to go more in depth about it. With that being said, instead of putting repetitive and similar interviews and mentioning topics that were not covered too in depth, I feel like the structure of the book would have been better if, instead of repeating things and only touching on them, the writer/author went more in depth of what she tried to convey. I understand how sometimes it is necessary to repeat points over and over because, sadly, sometimes people don't want to listen. I appreciated the interviews more because of the questions asked along them, which allowed me to ask myself questions and get a broader understanding of the point trying to be made. Angela Davis not only talks about movements and topics she is passionate about - like prison abolition, feminism, rights for BIPOC - but also emphasizes on the importance of understanding the history Black people have gone through, what civil rights movements have achieved for the people in the United States and other countries around the world, and what it means to stand in solidarity with Black people and other minority groups.Īlthough the book cites and specifies many important things we should start considering, understanding, and realizing, the speeches provided were repetitive. She was twice a candidate for Vice President on the Communist Party USA ticket during the 1980s.įreedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement carries a lot of important information that we should know.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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.
Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author.
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