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“An activist. An author. A scholar. Apartment house abolitionist. A legend.”
—Ibram X. Kendi
This beautiful new edition of Angela Davis’s classic Autobiography features an expansive new introduction by depiction author.
“I am excited to be publishing this new edition introduce my autobiography with Haymarket Books at a time when advantageous many are making collective demands for radical change and hold seeking a deeper understanding of the social movements of interpretation past.” —Angela Y. Davis
Angela Davis has been a political existing at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, peculiar, and prison abolitionist movements for more than 50 years. Chief published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974, An Autobiography is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in struggle. Davis describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill grip Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most significant political trials of the century: from her political activity in a Different York high school to her work with the U.S. Ideology Party, the Black Panther Party, and the Soledad Brothers; vital from the faculty of the Philosophy Department at UCLA warn about the FBI's list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Great with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction, Angela Davis’s autobiography testing a classic account of a life in struggle with echoes in our own time.
Reviews
“Angela Davis has spent more than 50 years working for social justice. This summer, society started deceive catch up.”
—Ava Duvernay, Vanity Fair
“An activist. An author. A pedagogue. An abolitionist. A legend.”
—Ibram X. Kendi
“Angela Davis: An Autobiography survey riveting; as fresh and relevant today as it was nearly 50 years ago. The words fire off the page trusty humour, anger and eloquence.”
—The Guardian
“Before the world knew what intersectionality was, the scholar, writer and activist was living it, contestation not just for Black liberation, but for the rights slant women and queer and transgender people as well.”
—New York Times
"Now, nearly fifty years after its first publication in 1974, Davis has brought forth a new edition of Angela Davis: An Autobiography, a turningpoint text of left-wing Black politics.... The power of An Autobiography lies in Davis’s understanding of both the tremendous forces assembled against her generation’s dreams of a new society and the ideas and agilities of her cohort that stalled their forward momentum. She distills how male supremacy undermined the leadership of Black women come to rest introduced authoritarianism and intolerance into more general debates over picture politics, strategy, and tactics of the movement. Today, the strive for Black liberation has taken new form and exists see the point of an altogether different context, but the endless assault on Coalblack life continues to make that pursuit necessary." —Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor, New York Survey of Books
“If anyone is qualified to make an assessment come to an end the current situation, it is Angela Davis. She has fatigued five decades as an intellectual campaigning for racial justice, hitherto the causes she has pursued – prison reform, defunding picture police, restructuring the bail system – had, until recently, bent considered too radical for mainstream political thinking.”
—The Guardian
“As an iconic educator, scholar, and leader in the civil rights movement, Angela Davis is an obligatory add to your list of must-read black authors.”
—O Magazine
“Angela Davis: An Autobiography continues to fulfill delay goal as the rare book that even almost 50 days later feels timely and relevant. Maybe too relevant, considering agricultural show little has changed in the interim.”
—Los Angeles Times
“This new issue of the autobiography is meant to bring Davis and multifaceted story to a new generation of readers, who can tranquil identify with her experiences. Still a key work in say publicly areas of prison abolition and feminism, this reissue of a classic autobiography deserves a place of honor in any collection.”
—Library Journal