Angela Y. Davis

37 books

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire by Angela Y. Davis

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire

Angela Y. Davis

136 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative fast-paced
Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis

420 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

128 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

Angela Y. Davis

464 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history music informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

158 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism politics race challenging informative reflective fast-paced
The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today by Wahneema Lubiano, Cornel West

The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today

Wahneema Lubiano, Cornel West

336 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices on Resistance, Reform, and Renewal an African American Anthology by William Julius Wilson, Fred Hampton, Prince Hall, Leith Mullings, William Wells Brown, Harold Washington, bell hooks, John S. Rock, Fannie Lou Hamer, Martin R. Delany, Paul Robeson, Ella Baker, Angelo Herndon, Manning Marable, Frederick Douglass, Henry Winston, Randall Robinson, Cornel West, Maria W. Stewart, Angela Y. Davis, Martin Luther King Jr., Michele Wallace, Jarvis Tyner, Alexander Crummell, Henry Highland Garnet, Timothy Thomas Fortune, John R. Lewis, Claude McKay, Amiri Baraka, Mary McLeod Bethune, Sojourner Truth, Audre Lorde, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jesse Jackson, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Molefi Asante, Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey, Claudia Jones, Assata Shakur, Richard Allen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Floyd McKissick, Anna Julia Cooper

Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices on Resistance, Reform, and Renewal an African American Anthology

William Julius Wilson, Fred Hampton, Prince Hall, Leith Mullings, William Wells Brown, Harold Washington, bell hooks, John S. Rock, Fannie Lou Hamer, Martin R. Delany, Paul Robeson, Ella Baker, Angelo Herndon, Manning Marable, Frederick Douglass, Henry Winston, Randall Robinson, Cornel West, Maria W. Stewart, Angela Y. Davis, Martin Luther King Jr., Michele Wallace, Jarvis Tyner, Alexander Crummell, Henry Highland Garnet, Timothy Thomas Fortune, John R. Lewis, Claude McKay, Amiri Baraka, Mary McLeod Bethune, Sojourner Truth, Audre Lorde, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jesse Jackson, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Molefi Asante, Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey, Claudia Jones, Assata Shakur, Richard Allen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Floyd McKissick, Anna Julia Cooper

598 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction essays history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Louder than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine by Edward W. Said, Ahmed Rashid, Ralph Nader, Juan González, Eqbal Ahmad, John Pilger, Danny Glover, Angela Y. Davis, Taylor Branch, Edwidge Danticat, Tariq Ali, Haunani-Kay Trask, Vandana Shiva, Kurt Vonnegut, Eduardo Galeano, David Barsamian, Amartya Sen, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Ben H. Bagdikian, Arundhati Roy

Louder than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine

Edward W. Said, Ahmed Rashid, Ralph Nader, Juan González, Eqbal Ahmad, John Pilger, Danny Glover, Angela Y. Davis, Taylor Branch, Edwidge Danticat, Tariq Ali, Haunani-Kay Trask, Vandana Shiva, Kurt Vonnegut, Eduardo Galeano, David Barsamian, Amartya Sen, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Ben H. Bagdikian, Arundhati Roy

170 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction politics informative reflective slow-paced
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues by Angela Y. Davis

The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues

Angela Y. Davis

202 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

The Autobiographies #1

Frederick Douglass

160 pages • first pub 1845 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography classics history race emotional informative reflective medium-paced