With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power
The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America’s most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Angela, and including contributions from numerous radicals and commentators such as Black Panthers George Jackson, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Erica Huggins, this book is not only an account of Davis’s incarceration and the struggles surrounding it, but also perhaps the most comprehensive and thorough analysis of the prison system of the United States and the figure embodied in Davis’s arrest and imprisonment—the political prisoner.
Since the book was written, the carceral system in the US has grown from strength to strength, with more of its black population behind bars than ever before. The scathing analysis of the role of prison and the policing of black populations offered by Davis and her comrades in this astonishing volume remains as relevant today as the day it was published.
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Angela Davis taught me that I did not have to tolerate the racism I was suffering in the playground, she told me that I was not alone.it was in this book that I first came across the word 'solidarity'. -- Benjamin Zephaniah 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 *
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With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America's giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power
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| An Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Y. Davis |
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PART I POLITICAL PRISONERS, PRISONS AND BLACK LIBERATION |
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1 Political Prisoners, Prisons and Black Liberation |
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2 Lessons: From Attica to Soledad |
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PART II THE PRISON SYSTEM |
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3 The Social Functions of the Prisons in the United States |
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4 Prison, Where Is Thy Victory? |
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5 Prisoners in Rebellion: The Folsom Prisoners Manifesto |
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PART III REALITIES OF REPRESSION |
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6 Trials of Political Prisoners Today |
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PART IV BOBBY SEALE AND ERICKA HUGGINS |
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9 A Letter to Ericka from Angela |
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PART V THE SOLEDAD BROTHERS: FLEETA DRUMGO, JOHN CLUTCHETTE, GEORGE JACKSON |
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11 How a Prison Picks Its Victims |
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13 On Prison Reform, from a letter by JOHN CLUTCHETTE |
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14 Towards the United Front |
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15 Letters to Jonathan Jackson from George Jackson |
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17 Letters to Angela Y. Davis |
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19 Prison Interviews with Angela Y. Davis |
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PART VIII ANGELA Y. DAVIS AND RUCHELL MAGEE ON TRIAL |
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20 Angela---Symbol of Resistance |
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21 From New York to California; The Extradition of Angela Y. Davis |
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22 Statement to the Court |
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23 Ruchell and Angela Want to Represent Themselves |
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24 Statement to the Court |
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25 Notes for Arguments in Court on the Issue of Self-Representation |
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26 The Political Campaign |
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27 Statements and Appeals |
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Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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