ABSTRACT
Angela Y. Davis is Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A prolific speaker and internationally renowned activist, Davis is the author of several books, including Women, race & class (Vintage, 1981) and Blues Legacies and Black Feminism (Pantheon, 1998). For almost thirty years, Angela Davis has been working to radically change the U.S. penal system. During the last ten years, her teaching, writing, speaking, and organizing efforts have been intensively focused on exposing the prison industrial complex and on working for its abolition. Her most recent book on prisons is Are Prisons Obsolete? (Seven Stories Press, 2003).
