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Angela Davis

Angela Davis
Title:	Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies
Type:	Emeriti
Email:	aydavis@ucsc.edu
Phone:	(831) 459-2813 Message (831) 459-1925 Fax
Office:	Humanities I 430

Research Focus
Feminism, African American studies, critical theory, popular music culture and social consciousness, philosophy of punishment (women's jails and prisons)

Education History
Certificat de la Littérature Française Contemporaine, Sorbonne

Selected Publications

Are Prisons Obsolete?, New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2003.

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and
Billie Holiday, New York: Vintage Books, 1999.

The Angela Y. Davis Reader, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.

Angela Davis: An Autobiography, New York: International Publishers, 1989 (original published in 1974 by Random House).

Women, Race, and Class, New York: Vintage Books, 1983.