Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation.Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements, Davis examines the racism and class prejudice inherent in so much of white feminism, and in doing so brings to light new pioneering heroines, from field slaves to mill workers, who fought back and refused to accept the lives into which they were born.'The power of her historical insights and the sweetness of her dream cannot be denied' The New York Times
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CONTRIBUTORS: Angela Y. Davis
EAN: 9780241408407
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 191 g
HEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-10-03
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GENRE: HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Women, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
WIDTH: 129 cm
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Book Themes:
United States of America, USA, Relating to African American / Black American people, Social classes, Gender studies: women and girls, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social and cultural history
The power of her historical insights and the sweetness of her dream cannot be denied
Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
