Black liberation struggle. Scritti sulla prigione e la lotta di liberazione dei neri

I recently read this for my Ecological Crisis and Human Freedom class. This is the first work I have read of Angela Davis (as an Anthropology major this is embarrassing), and I am inspired to read so much more. She is brilliant - an evocative speaker on social justice, humanity, and feminism. It was Leggi tutto

Angela Davis is an amazing woman who did her research, in reading this pamphlet it enlightened me and added more clarity to the conscious reality of blacks in Western Society. She drew on historical references and in understanding true liberation is 'resistance' / 'rejection' of captivity-- mentally Leggi tutto

"Is man free or is he not? Ought he be free or ought not he be free? The history of Black Literature provides, in my opinion, a much more illuminating account of the nature of freedom , its extent and limits, than all the philosophical discourses on this theme in the history of Western society. Why? Leggi tutto

“The slave, the black man, the chicano and oppressed whites are much more aware of alienation, perhaps not as a philosophical concept, but as a fact of their daily existence.”