The Angela Y. Davis Reader by Angela Y. Davis

She argues forthrightly for 'decarceration', and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable. Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Similarly,the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable.

Davis, offers new insights into Daviss journey and promises to catalyze fresh research into the. Davis Reader Are Prisons Obsolete a new edition of. This exhibition, together with the Papers of Angela Y.

Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is the author of nine books, including Angela Davis: An Autobiography Women, Race, and Class Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday The Angela Y. Synopsis: With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Angela Davis was born and raised in apartheid Birming-ham, Alabama, under conditions of extreme and blatant unfree-dom.

The Angela Y. Davis Reader by Angela Y. Davis