The Meaning of Freedom

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Call Number: 305.896 Da, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Social Science / Race & Ethnicity / Davis, Angela
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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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.
In this collection of twelve previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts the interconnected issues of power, race, gender, class, incarceration, conservatism, and the ongoing need for social change in the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 In this collection of twelve searing, previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts the interconnected issues of power, race, gender, class, incarceration, conservatism, and the ongoing need for social change in the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.

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