A powerful collection of essays on justice, liberation, and the global fight for freedom.
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression across history and around the world.
Reflecting on the importance of Black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolition for today's movements, Davis explores the enduring legacies of liberation struggles—from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-apartheid movement. She reveals the profound connections between contemporary movements for justice, from Ferguson to Palestine, demonstrating how seemingly separate struggles are bound together by shared histories, common challenges, and collective aspirations.
Drawing on decades of activism and scholarship, Davis argues that meaningful change is built through solidarity across borders, identities, and generations. Her essays challenge readers to rethink conventional ideas about freedom, democracy, and justice while offering a hopeful vision of movements working together to confront racism, inequality, mass incarceration, militarism, and state violence.
Both an urgent political reflection and an enduring call to action, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle reminds us that progress is never inevitable—it is created through courage, collective action, and an unwavering commitment to human liberation.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents
Introduction by Frank Barat
[Forthcoming]
Foreword by Alice Walker
[Forthcoming]
Chapter 1: [Need title]
An interview with Frank Barat
Chapter 2: [Need Title]
September 2014 interview with Angela in Brussels
Chapter 3: [Need Title]
December 2014 interview with Angela in Paris
Chapter 4: On Palestine, G4S and the Prison-Industrial Complex
Angela Davis speech at SOAS in December 2013
Chapter 5: Closures and Continuities
Angela Davis speech at Birkbeck University in December 2013
Chapter 6: Policing the Crisis Today
Angela Davis speech at Goldsmith College
Chapter 7: From Michael Brown to Assata Shakur, America's Racist State Persists
Angela Davis article in The Guardian
Chapter 8: Feminism and Abolition
Angela Davis speech at University of Chicago
Chapter 9: Political Activism and Protest from the 1960s to the Age of Obama
Angela Davis Speech
[Still needs to be transcribed]
Acknowledgements
Notes
