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this was really great. packs a Lot of insights into a very small book. Angela Davis never throws concepts around lightly, so her analysis of amerikan 'democracy' — what it is, how it gets mobilized, its links to empire and capitalism etc — is SO thoughtful and feels tangible. her analysis of torture, how repressive racist/sexual violence operates in the current period, global capitalism, and the political discourse of the time is also very helpful.
P.S. i love interviews and collections of interviews but dear god like half of the interviewer's questions in this book were insufferable ?? he would either be totally grounded in random conservative or mainstream talking points, OR bring up some random progressive academic framework that isnt relevant at ALL and Davis would have to respond to it lol. shes constantly rejecting or hugely complicating his reductive ass questions — which works out fine for the book bc as she does that she explains some very important things. but just wow so odd ....
P.S. i love interviews and collections of interviews but dear god like half of the interviewer's questions in this book were insufferable ?? he would either be totally grounded in random conservative or mainstream talking points, OR bring up some random progressive academic framework that isnt relevant at ALL and Davis would have to respond to it lol. shes constantly rejecting or hugely complicating his reductive ass questions — which works out fine for the book bc as she does that she explains some very important things. but just wow so odd ....
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An insightful look into the relationship between Abu Graib, the US prison system, feminism, racism, and modern politics.
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cw: talks about racism, police brutality, colonialism, mentions of homophobia, war, torture, the prison & military industrial complexes.
fascinating on all fronts. this probably shouldn't have been my first angela davis, but it won't be my last.
fascinating on all fronts. this probably shouldn't have been my first angela davis, but it won't be my last.
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Very interesting book that further exposes the dark systematic entanglement between prisons and U.S. democracy. It is clear that the U.S. prison-industrial complex (as Davis refers to it) is the de facto arbiter of violence that obfuscates systematic racism and capitalism's suffocating presence. There is also an interesting point that Davis makes on the civil rights movement turning people into abstract subjects to be administered justice i.e. stripping them of their race and class. This play at equality is duplicitous, as people are not abstract subjects, and remain targets of racialized policies that promote inequality and abuse. There was also quite a bit on the Bush presidency and subsequent War of Terror, which was edifying, but felt oddly dated.
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