{"id":1060,"date":"2012-10-11T18:13:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T01:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2017-12-14T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T16:25:29","slug":"davis-angela-yvonne-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1060","title":{"rendered":"DAVIS, ANGELA YVONNE, 1944-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University professor, writer, activist. Born&#8211; January 26, 1944, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; B. Frank and Sally E. Davis. Education&#8211; attended the Sorbonne, 1963-64; Brandeis University, B.A., 1965; graduate study, University of Frankfurt, 1965-1967; University of California at San Diego, M.A., 1968; additional study, 1968-1969. Ph. D. Humboldt University. \u00a0 Taught philosophy at U.C.L.A., 1969-1970; University of California at Santa Cruz, 1991-2008; San Francisco State University.\u00a0 Member Black Panthers,\u00a0Communist Party.\u00a0 Candidate for U. S. Vice President, Communist Party, 1980 and 1984.\u00a0 Honorary doctorate, Lenin University. Awarded emerita status at the University of California Santa Cruz\u00a0on her retirement in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online\u00a0and Who&#8217;s Who of American Women, 1979-1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abolition Democracy; Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture. Seven Stories Press, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Davis; an Autobiography. New York; Random House, 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Are Prisons Obsolete?\u00a0 Seven Stories Press, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the Frame;\u00a0 Women of Color and Visual Representation.\u00a0 Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Woman&#8217;s Role in the Community of Slaves. Somerville, Mass.; New England Free Press, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Blues Legacies and Black Feminism; Gertrude &#8216;Ma&#8217; Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday.\u00a0 Pantheon Books, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom Is a Constant Struggle.\u00a0 Haymarket Books, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Meaning of Freedom, and Other Difficult Dialogues.\u00a0 City Lights, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Policing the National Body; Sex, Race, and Criminalization.\u00a0 South End Press, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Challenge to Racism. Latham, N.Y.; Women of Color Press, 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Women, Culture, and Politics. New York; Random House, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Women, Race, and Class. New York; Random House, 1981.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If They Come in the Morning; Voices of Resistance.\u00a0 Third Press, 1971.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama holds a collection of Angela Davis papers and ephemera covering the years 1971-1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: University professor, writer, activist. Born&#8211; January 26, 1944, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; B. Frank and Sally E. Davis. Education&#8211; attended the Sorbonne, 1963-64; Brandeis University, B.A., 1965; graduate study, University of Frankfurt, 1965-1967; University of California at San Diego, M.A., 1968; additional study, 1968-1969. Ph. D. Humboldt University. \u00a0 Taught philosophy at U.C.L.A., 1969-1970; University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7255,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/7255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}