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Obviously, Angela Davis is an incredibly foundational figure in our efforts to organize community led movements and I've needed to read this for years. However, for my white friends who (like me) think of this as something to check off your list in order to feel better about your role in oppressive cycles at play in America and throughout the world, this is a starting point for further, more in depth reading and reflection. Overall though, this expertly reenforces how movements to end discrimination, genocide and hate start and stop with well organized collective action, even when it disrupts our sense of normalcy.

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4.75

While I agree with some of the other reviews I saw stating that the information at times felt repetitive in a way that a normally composed book might not tolerate, I appreciate the way that this mimics the title and thesis of the book. The information, repeated, reminded, emphasized, follows the pattern of the shuffling dance of freedom. A step to the right, a step to the left. A large step forward, a smaller step back. To hear this choreography in Angela Davis’s own voice made it feel incendiary and tangible.

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booksbeyondthebinary's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

4.5

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ofbooksandechos's review against another edition

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informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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annamay1021's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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abitbetterbooks's review against another edition

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challenging informative medium-paced

It seems impossible to rate a work that is this important and that is so textured and layered.

I will say that the audio format made it a bit confusing to distinguish when a question was being posed and when Davis was answering in the interviews, but I loved hearing her narrate her own words. I do think because it’s separate occasions pieced together there is a bit of repetition but I think it mostly works and serves to drive home important points.

It’s sad because I do remember so clearly the period from which these writings and talks were from: not long after the Occupy movement, on the heels of groundbreaking activism in Ferguson and the heartbreaking loss of more Black lives like Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Michael Brown. And yet this work is more relevant than ever.

I loved the way Davis drew large connections between global movements, and evoked the history of collective actions behind dismantling segregation, and South African apartheid, while discussing the current state of life in Palestine. I really would love a hard copy or ebook of this to mark up and highlight important passages!

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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