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Abolition democracy : beyond empire, prisons, and torture / interviews with Angela Y. Davis.

Title: Abolition democracy : beyond empire, prisons, and torture / interviews with Angela Y. Davis.
Author: Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-
Publication: New York : Seven Stories Press, ©2005.

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Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-

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136 pages; 18 cm

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‏A series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics, and prison. Davis talks about her own incarceration, her experiences as an أenemy of the state, ؤ and about having been put on the FВІѫs most wanted list. She talks about the crucial role that international activism played in her case and the cases of many other political prisoners. Throughout these interviews, Angela Davis returns to her critique of a democracy that has been compromised by its racist origins and institutions.
"In a series of interviews given in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, Angela Y. Davis explores how historical systems of oppression like slavery and lynching continue to influence and undermine democracy today. Davis builds on W.E.B. DuBois's view that when people were released from slavery in this country, they were denied the full privileges of other citizens. This denial of full rights and the creation of a U.S. prison system emerged as a way of maintaining dominance and control over entire populations. Davis explores the notion of "Abolition Democracy" as the democracy to come, a set of social relations free of oppression and injustice."--Jacket.

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Politics and prisons -- Sexual coercion, prisons, and feminist responses -- Abolition democracy -- Resistance, law and language.

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