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The meaning of freedom

Title
The meaning of freedom / Angela Y. Davis ; foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley.
Author
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-
Publication
San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2012]
Supplementary Content
  • Contributor biographical information
  • Publisher description

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Additional Authors
Kelley, Robin D. G.
Description
201 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
  • In this collection of twelve previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts the interconnected issues of power, race, gender, class, incarceration, conservatism, and the ongoing need for social change in the United States.
  • What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural, and sexual freedom. In this collection of twelve searing, previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts the interconnected issues of power, race, gender, class, incarceration, conservatism, and the ongoing need for social change in the United States. With her characteristic brilliance, historical insight, and penetrating analysis, Davis addresses examples of institutional injustice and explores the radical notion of freedom as a collective striving for real democracy -- not a thing granted by the state, law, proclamation, or policy, but a participatory social process, rooted in difficult dialogues, that demands new ways of thinking and being. "It is not too much," writes Robin D.G. Kelly in the introduction, "to call her one of the world's leading philosophers of freedom." The Meaning of Freedom articulates a bold vision of the society we need to build and the path to get there. -- Publisher description.
Series Statement
Open Media series
Uniform Title
Open Media book.
Alternative Title
Meaning of freedom and other difficult dialogues
Subject
  • Since 1980
  • Social change > United States
  • Sexual minorities > United States
  • Liberty
  • Racism
  • Civil rights
  • Politics and government
  • Social conditions
  • United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020
  • United States > Politics and government > 1989-
  • United States > Race relations
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 199).
Contents
Report from Harlem -- The prison-industrial complex -- Race, crime, and punishment -- Race, power, and prisons since 9/11 -- Radical multiculturalism -- Abolition democracy -- Racism : then and now -- The meaning of freedom -- Justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities -- Recognizing racism in the era of neoliberalism -- Democracy, social change, and civil engagement -- Difficult dialogues.
Call Number
Sc D 22-255
ISBN
  • 9780872865808
  • 0872865800
  • 9780872865037
  • 0872865037
LCCN
2009023359
OCLC
318876129
Author
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- author.
Title
The meaning of freedom / Angela Y. Davis ; foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley.
Publisher
San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2012]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Creator/Contributor Characteristics
African Americans
Americans
Series
Open Media series
Open Media book.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 199).
Connect to:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Chronological Term
Since 1980
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Kelley, Robin D. G., writer of foreword.
Cover Title
Meaning of freedom and other difficult dialogues
Research Call Number
Sc D 22-255
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