Angela Davis

In these essays, interviews and speeches, Angela Y. Davis illuminates connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles. She highlights connections and analyses today's struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine. Facing a world of injustice, Davis challenges us to build the movement for human liberation.

Hon är känd som en av grundarna till Svarta befrielsearmén, medlem av Svarta pantrarna och gudmor till hiphoplegenden Tupac Shakur. År 2013 blev hon den första kvinnan någonsin att tas upp på listan över FBI:s mest efterlysta terrorister. Nu kommer Assata Shakurs skakande självbiografi för första gången på svenska. Livstidsdomen för mordet på en vit delstatspolis 1973 delade USA. Fallet Assata blev en symbol för rasism och polisbrutalitet. Där kritiker såg en hänsynslös mördare såg Assatas försvarare ett offer för en systematisk och rasistisk kampanj för att kriminalisera svarta befrielseorganisationer. I sin personliga och politiska självbiografi skildrar Assata de erfarenheter som fick henne att omfamna ett liv av aktivism. Assata Shakur min historia är ett bidrag till historieskrivningen och den nutida debatten om rasism och diskriminering. Boken intar en självklar plats intill Malcolm X självbiografi och Maya Angelous böcker. Assata Shakur är också känd som Joanne Chesimard. Hon rymde från fängelset 1979 och lever idag i exil på Kuba. FBI erbjuder upp till en miljon dollar för information som kan leda till hennes gripande. Med förord av Angela Davis och Nathan Hamelberg. Assata Shakurs dikter har tolkats till svenska av Athena Farrokhzad och Leandro Schclarek Mulinari.

Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) was a German Marxist theorist who tirelessly advocated for women's rights. In her writings, Clara Zetkin describes the political process that ultimately allowed for socialised reproduction' - namely the establishment by the Soviet Revolutionary government of communal kitchens, laundries and child care facilities. This updated edition brings Zetkin's writings to the masses, edited by Marxist historian Philip S. Foner and with a foreword by renowned writer and activist Angela Davis.'

Pre-school childcare in England, 1939–2010 investigates how competing ideas about child development influenced the provision, practice and experience of childcare for the under fives since 1939. It explores how theories which developed during the war about the psychological harm caused by separating an infant from its mother influenced the organisation of childcare outside the family in light of the social, economic and demographic changes seen during the years that followed. Focusing on four different forms of childcare – day nurseries, nursery schools and classes, playgroups, and childminders – it considers how both individual families and wider society managed the care of young children in the context of dramatic increases in the employment of married women. Using a new body of oral history interviews specifically undertaken for the book, it also examines the experiences and effects of care on those involved and the current policy implications raised.

Winner of the Women’s History Network Book Prize, 2013This book examines women’s experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000. Based on a new body of 160 oral history interviews, the book offers the first comprehensive historical study of the experience of motherhood in the second half of the twentieth century. Motherhood is an area where a number of discourses and practices meet. The book forms a thematic study looking at aspects of mothers’ lives such as education, health care, psychology, labour market trends and state intervention. Looking through the prism of motherhood provides a way of understanding the complex social changes that have taken place in the post-war world. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in the field of twentieth-century British social history. However it will also be of interest to scholars in related fields and a general readership with an interest in British social history.'A fascinating survey of women's experience of motherhood', 'eminently readable', 'a solid and thoughtful study', 'an outstanding piece of oral history', and 'ambitiously wide ranging'. The judging panel for the Women’s History Network Book Prize, 2013.

Avery Gordon's first book, Ghostly Matters, was widely acclaimed as a work of striking sociological imagination and social theory. Keeping Good Time, her much anticipated second book, brings together essays by Gordon that were "written to be read aloud." Her eloquent voice in this book further establishes her place among literary sociological writers of a new generation. Keeping Good Time will be of great interest to activists, feminists, sociologists, students and everyone concerned about how to beat the odds in influencing the shape of social and culture change. Readers will find their thinking changed by the author's perennial quest to "develop insights gained in confrontation with injustice."

Avery Gordon's first book, Ghostly Matters, was widely acclaimed as a work of striking sociological imagination and social theory. Keeping Good Time, her much anticipated second book, brings together essays by Gordon that were "written to be read aloud." Her eloquent voice in this book further establishes her place among literary sociological writers of a new generation. Keeping Good Time will be of great interest to activists, feminists, sociologists, students and everyone concerned about how to beat the odds in influencing the shape of social and culture change. Readers will find their thinking changed by the author's perennial quest to "develop insights gained in confrontation with injustice."

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly, the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration," and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.

Political Criticism. CD format. "Prisons are becoming an integral part of the U. S. economy, which means that there are stakes other than anti-crime stakes that will keep the prison industry expanding. It's acquiring its own momentum which, if we don't intervene and stop it now, we will be into the next millennium an increasingly incarcerated society. And that scares me, because I have been there" -- from the CD. In this 54-minute recording, Angela Davis traces her own path to activism, from the campaign in Birmingham in her youth after the church bombing which killed 4 of her girlfriends, through her prosecution and incarceration for political work around George Jackson & the Panthers, to her anti-prison work today. She shows the ways that ordinary people can and must stop the prison-industrial juggernaut before it becomes larger and more powerful. This lecture was recorded at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, on May 5, 1997.

The author, formerly known as JoAnne Chesimard, relates the formative experiences of her youth that led her to a life of activism in Black nationalist organizations and, eventually, to prison