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“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.