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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872865808 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100677870 02 0872865800 03 9780872865808 15 9780872865808 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>City Lights Open Media</TitleText> <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textcase="02">The Meaning of Freedom</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The</TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix>Meaning of Freedom</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textcase="02">And Other Difficult Dialogues</Subtitle> 1 A01 Davis, Angela Y. Angela Y. Davis Through her activism and her scholarship over the last decades, Angela Y. Davis has been deeply involved in our nation's quest for social justice. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender equality. Professor Davis' 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 spent the last fifteen years at the University of California Santa Cruz where she is now Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness, an interdisciplinary Ph.D program, and 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 and Are Prisons Obsolete? about the abolition of the prison industrial complex, and a new edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Angela Davis is a founding member Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex. Internationally, she is affiliated with Sisters Inside, an abolitionist organization based in Queensland, Australia that works in solidarity with women in prison. Like many other educators, Professor Davis is especially concerned with the general tendency to devote more resources and attention to the prison system than to educational institutions. Having helped to popularize the notion of a "prison industrial complex," she now urges her audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement. 2 A24 Kelley, Robin D.G. Robin D.G. Kelley 01 eng 202 00 202 03 20 african american;barack obama;politics;race relations;speeches 24 Internet CL Hierarchy African American Writing 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Cultural Studies 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Politics 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Women 01 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. This is her only book of speeches and her first full-length book since Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003). "Davis' arguments for justice are formidable. . . . The power of her historical insights and the sweetness of her dream cannot be denied." —The New York Times "Long before 'race/gender' became the obligatory injunction it is now, Angela Davis was developing an analytical framework that brought all of these factors into play. For readers who only see Angela Davis as a public icon . . . meet the real Angela Davis: perhaps the leading public intellectual of our era." —Robin D. G. Kelley author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original "One of America's last truly fearless public intellectuals." —Cynthia McKinney, U.S. Democratic Congresswoman "Angela Davis's revolutionary spirit is still strong. Still with us, thank goodness!" —Virginian-Pilot "There was a time in America when to call a person an 'abolitionist' was the ultimate epithet. It evoked scorn in the North and outrage in the South. Yet they were the harbingers of things to come. They were on the right side of history. Prof. Angela Y. Davis stands in that proud, radical tradition." —Mumia Abu-Jamal, author of Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the U.S.A. "Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis, open, relentless, and on time!" —June Jordan "The enormous revolution in Black consciousness which has occurred in your generation, my dear sister, means the beginning or the end of America. Some of us, white and Black, know how great a price has already been paid to bring into existence a new consciousness, a new people in an unprecedented nation. If we know, and do nothing, we are worse than the murderers hired in our name. If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own—which it is—and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night." —James Baldwin "Angela Davis has stood as a courageous voice of conscience on matters of race, class, and gender in America." —David Theo Goldberg, Arizona State University "Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice." —Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Women's Studies, Hamilton College 02 Angela Davis' first book in nearly a decade, and her only book of speeches on racism, community, freedom, and politics in the United States. 08 "Davis is careful to bring current, pressing, and local issues into each of her speeches. The same undergirding of what the Combahee River Collective called 'interlocking' oppressions organizes not only her speeches but also her responses to audience members included in the book, providing some of the richest moments in the collection." —Alexis Pauline Gumbs Make/Shift Magazine 08 "The 12 speeches delivered between 1994 and 2009, and collected here for the first time, provide as good an entry point as any into the radical life and ideas of the political activist and thinker Angela Davis." —Thomas Chatterton Williams San Francisco Chronicle 08 "I'm only a few pages into this book, but I am already convinced of its importance. Angela Davis is, of course, one of the most significant radical philosopher-academic-activists of the past half-century, and her outline of the prison-industrial complex has been a template for justice-makers. Her first book in seven years is a collection of previously-unpublished speeches, drawn from a 15-year period, and it confronts the intersections of oppressions in our society — with particular focus on the demonic role of the incarceration/punishment industry, as one should expect." Fellowship Magazine 08 "Angela Davis has devoted her career to this fundamental question of freedom, and its seemingly inherent other, oppression. The need for social change in America is great, but constantly thwarted by institutional injustice. Davis is calling for real democracy, which comes not from any law or proclamation, but by participatory social process." —Alexis Coe SF Weekly: Read Local 08 "This book is a collection of Davis' lectures from 1994 through 2009, interweaving themes of freedom and bias based on race, gender, and sexual orientation. Davis is at her best linking these perceptively separate segments into a broader concept of freedom across all the lines that separate us." —Vernon Ford Booklist Online 08 "Angela Y. Davis proves that it's still possible to find a new, refreshing way to discuss race, gender, class, and sexuality. In this heartfelt examination through previously unpublished speeches, Davis discusses these issues with simple language and challenges us to think about how feminism and racism relate to our everyday lives." —Bust Magazine Bust Magazine 08 "In this collection of 12 previously unpublished speeches, the longtime activist asks readers to imagine a social landscape devoid of institutional and cultural injustice. Freedom is a process of becoming, she asserts; it can't be fully realized without collective participation by a demanding society." —Ms. Magazine, Fall 2012 Issue Ms. Magazine 08 "As always, Davis is particularly concerned with the prison-industrial complex, yet her thoughts on marriage equality, immigration and globalization are just as thought-provoking." —Georgia Rowe San Jose Mercury News 08 "This document of contemporary thought by a major world-historical figure, Davis' first full-length book in almost a decade, makes it timelessly clear that while no freedom fight will ever be easy—'We can't rely on simple categories'—every real triumph, however small and short-lived, will always be worth it." —Todd Steven Burroughs Ebony.com 23 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100677870/extras/TheMeaningofFreedomExcerptCL.pdf 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100677870/images/87286100677870L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100677870/images/87286100677870S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100677870 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20120801 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20120801 01 02 15.95 USD