Barbara Jefferson, a young American teaching in Tokyo in the 1960s, is set on a life-changing quest when her Japanese surrogate mother, Michi, dies, leaving her a tansu of homemade plum wines wrapped in rice paper. Within the papers, Barbara discovers writings in Japanese calligraphy that comprise a startling personal narrative. With the help of ...
World-renowned activist Angela Davis discusses how mass incarceration has had little or no effect on crime, how disproportionate numbers of the poor and minorities end up in prison, and the obscene profits the system generates.
First published in 1982 and now reissued, a collection of essays from this political commentator which examines the lives and achievements of black women under slavery and white women workers under industrialism.
University professor and 1960s activist Angela Davis's erudite and sweeping examination of the careers of two of the blues' best known interpreters, Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, plus the jazz singer Billie Holiday, looks at the roots of the blues' lyrical obsessions with sexuality (this sexuality frequently being the only factor in their ...
A sequel of sorts to the author's masterful Women, Race And Class, this book examines the critical issues important to women: racism, violence, health, children, education and peace.
University professor and 1960s activist Angela Davis's erudite and sweeping examination of the careers of two of the blues' best known interpreters, Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, plus the jazz singer Billie Holiday, looks at the roots of the blues' lyrical obsessions with sexuality (this sexuality frequently being the only factor in their ...
Like Race Matters and Playing in the Dark, The House That Race Built is a cutting-edge work that confronts, honestly and passionately, the most critical issues facing American culture today along the fissure of race. In these essays, brought together by the scholar Wahneema Lubiano, some of today's most respected intellectuals share their ideas on ...
"Expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice system. . . . His writings are dangerous."--The Village Voice In Jailhouse Lawyers, award-winning journalist and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal presents the stories and reflections of fellow prisoners-turned-advocates who have learned to use the court system to represent other prisoners--many ...
Art as activism; "This ain't no Dreamgirls," Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs. Her expectations are grounded in reality, tempered, for example, by the fact that women are the fastest growing population in U.S. prisons. Still, Jones believes that by ...
Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) rejected her segregationist, privileged Alabama past to become one of the civil rights movement's staunchest white allies and one of only five white southerners commended by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Arousing the conscience of white southerners to racial injustice, Braden ...
Inscribed on the walls of the United States Department of Justice are the lofty words: "The United States wins its point whenever justice is done its citizens in the courts." Yet what happens when prosecutors, the most powerful officials in the criminal justice system, seek convictions instead of justice? Why are cases involving educated, well-to ...
For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracist feminism, critical studies and political struggles. Even for readers who primarily know her as a ...
Out of print for more than a decade, and now available in paperback for the first time, "Forms of Shelter" follows Beryl Fonteyn as she observes the ordinary lives around her. But in one irrevocable moment, Beryls family home is torn apart forever.
A notable addition to the growing body of work that examines art and work as social constructs, Art and Work traces the development of commercial illustration and the graphic arts industry in Canada from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s.
Since the Abu Gharib scandal, African-American intellectual Angela Davis has given interviews discussing resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics and prison. In this collection, Davis talks about her own incarceration, as well as her experiences as "enemy of the state."
"The Equity Equation deals candidly, thoroughly, and objectively with issues for women in science, engineering, and mathematics. This much-needed study not only investigates the institutional causes of gender inequity, but lays out the research, policy, and programs needed to change the status quo." - James Duderstadt, president, University of ...
The first biography of renowned activist Anne Braden: white, southern civil rights crusader and victim of anticommunist persecution during the 1950s Red Scare.
In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity. What Sandoval has identified is a language, a ...
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