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Angela Davis

Disciplines:
political philosophy
prison abolition

Summary

American political activist and philosopher who has been a major voice for Black liberation and prison abolition — placed on the FBI's most wanted list in 1970 and subsequently acquitted.

Core Contribution

Are Prisons Obsolete?: the prison system should not be reformed but abolished — it is a continuation of slavery by other means. Black feminist thought: the intersection of race, gender, and class. Women, Race & Class: a historical analysis of how suffragism erased Black women.

Notable Works & Achievements

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Women, Race & Class

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Historical Influences

Herbert Marcuse Karl Marx Audre Lorde

Intellectual Lineage

Black MarxismBlack Feminism

Contemporaries & Peers

bell hooks Patricia Hill Collins

Minds Influenced

Prison Abolition Movement Black Lives Matter

Intellectual Posterity

Prison Abolition Movement

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