Angela Davis: Still fighting for prison reform. (651 hits)
Angela Davis' life is complex, multi-leveled, brilliant and filled with courage. Here is her curricula vitae or more likely part of it, before I blog on her speech. I have to do this in three parts, it's way too much information!
Professor Davis's teaching career has taken her to San Francisco State University, Mills College, and UC Berkeley. She has also taught at UCLA, Vassar, the Claremont Colleges, and Stanford University. She has spent the last fifteen years at the University of California Santa Cruz where she is Professor of History of Consciousness, an interdisciplinary Ph.D program, and Professor of Feminist Studies. Angela Davis is the author of eight books and has lectured throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America. In recent years a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She draws upon her own experiences in the early seventies as a person who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted List." She has also conducted extensive research on numerous issues related to race, gender and imprisonment. Her most recent books are Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons and Torture and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is now completing a book on prisons and American history.
Co-sponsored by The Cooper Union, The Center for the Humanities at CUNY, The College and Community Fellowship Program at CUNY, and Center for the Study of Gender and s*xuality at NYU.
Marta you are really awesome and I am looking forwarding to hearing more about Ms. Davis.
Friday, October 31st 2008 at 11:59AM
Jen Fad
No question, you can "feel" the magic of her presence..like Obama's.
Saturday, November 1st 2008 at 11:45AM
Marta Fernandez
You always know what to post...this woman is the first person that I was able to 'feel' her presence when she walked ito the bulding that I was in.This experience I will never forget. this is the power of this woman. She was teaching at San Francisco state U. at the time and I had gone there to do an interview with her for a term paper I was doing.She had me stay over and attend a raga(mispelled)concert that she was giving on campus later that night.this was the first time that I had even heard about this music.Actually she was the one who found out more about what my goals in life were than what I was there for.I never did do the interview as it was not necessary. She is a book just watching her give a class lecture as I did.Nor did I use the appointment time that I had made with her months in advance. all went just natural, just as this woman whom I idolize is in real life.
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
