Angela Y. Davis Books

When we look back on the civil rights movement and the Black liberation struggles, we must resist the temptation to view them as completed chapters in history. They are ongoing, living presences that continue to speak to our present. The legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, and colonialism are embedded in...

From The Meaning of Freedom

Nowhere is the persistence of racialized control clearer than in the prison system. The term 'prison-industrial complex' captures how incarceration has become profitable—an industry that thrives on the suffering of marginalized communities. Since the late twentieth century, prisons have expanded und...

From The Meaning of Freedom

When we look back at the early women’s rights movement of the nineteenth century, we are met with both inspiration and contradiction. Figures like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are remembered for their courage in demanding political rights, yet their feminism was often entangled with r...

From Women, Race & Class

The abolitionist movement did more than fight slavery—it awakened a new moral and political consciousness that would later inspire feminism. I write in this book that women’s emergence as political actors in the nineteenth century cannot be separated from the anti-slavery struggle. In the antebellum...

From Women, Race & Class