Person

Davis, Angela Y.

1944

Schwarzamerikanische Philosophin, Humanwissenschaftlerin

Angela Davis is a scholar, writer, and activist who is also Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of Callfornia, Santa Cruz (UCSC). She was removed from her position at UCLA in 1969 for her work with the Communist Party, and placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List on false charges in 1970. She was acquitted in 1972 after serving sixteen months in prison. Her publications include Angela Davis: An Autobiography (1974), Women, Race, and Class (1981), The Angela Y. Davis Reader (1998), Blues Legacies and Black Feminism (1998), Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003), and The Meaning of Freedom (2012).