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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Y. Davis
4.46 AVERAGE
5.1k reviews for:
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Y. Davis
4.46 AVERAGE
“Whenever you conceptualize social justice struggles, you will always defeat your own purposes if you cannot imagine the people around whom you are struggling as equal partners.”
Hard to even justify this book with a review. Incredibly moving and insightful set of essays and speeches from activist Angela Davis. She covers a wide range of issues including Ferguson, prison abolition, Black feminist movements, trans liberation, Palestine, and more to connect these movements as being rooted in struggles against state violence and oppression. Her insistence on collective power as opposed to individual figureheads for movement-building was particularly interesting, as were her comments on the transnational nature of social justice movements.
She also discusses how radical the Reconstruction era was because of the election of Black officials and the fact that it was largely former slaves who advocated for public education in the South, which I hadn’t really heard about before! Davis’ life of activism and empowering words will stick with me for a long time.
Hard to even justify this book with a review. Incredibly moving and insightful set of essays and speeches from activist Angela Davis. She covers a wide range of issues including Ferguson, prison abolition, Black feminist movements, trans liberation, Palestine, and more to connect these movements as being rooted in struggles against state violence and oppression. Her insistence on collective power as opposed to individual figureheads for movement-building was particularly interesting, as were her comments on the transnational nature of social justice movements.
She also discusses how radical the Reconstruction era was because of the election of Black officials and the fact that it was largely former slaves who advocated for public education in the South, which I hadn’t really heard about before! Davis’ life of activism and empowering words will stick with me for a long time.
Listened to this one as an audiobook and would highly recommend since it’s a compilation of speeches.
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Would consider this fundamental to understanding that freedom is an intersectional struggle. "Our histories never unfold in isolation."
A great collection of interviews and speeches by Angela Davis that are inspiring, thoughtful, informative and educational. There are common themes through out the book (sometimes a bit repetitive but not in a bad way imo)that for me, acted to reinforce elements through out the book that are important to collective struggles, feminist theory and the connective thread of oppression and fight for freedom across the world. I really appreciate that this book led me to read additional text to research issues, people, theories, movements that I was not familiar with. It's a great starting place to learn more about movement building and collective liberation. Although written years ago this book is still incredibly relevant today. Great read.
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truly devastating to hear any sort of hope for palestine and then remembering this was released in 2016
Why did it take me this long to read Angela Y. Davis. I love her with all of my heart.
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the intersectionality of not just identities but struggles
impact of a movement > outcome
impact of a movement > outcome
Really fantastic collection of speeches, essays, and interviews. Angela Davis is an excellent mind, and her teachings on globalizing struggle and de-individualizing movements are incredibly insightful.