Angela Y. Davis
出生: January 26, 1944 – Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Angela Y. Davis is an American philosopher, historian, activist, and author whose work examines race, gender, class, abolition, and the prison-industrial complex. Her notable books include Women, Race, & Class, Are Prisons Obsolete?, and Freedom Is a Constant Struggle. A longtime professor, she has shaped academic and public debates on justice.
传记与作者历程
Angela Y. Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on January 26, 1944, and came of age in the violence and discipline of Jim Crow. Raised in a politically engaged Black family in the area known as “Dynamite Hill,” she learned early how racism operated both as law and as daily threat. A scholarship took her to progressive schools in New York, then to Brandeis University, where she studied French and spent time in Europe. Graduate study in Frankfurt, San Diego, and Berlin deepened her engagement with philosophy, Marxism, and critical theory, especially through figures such as Herbert Marcuse. The 1963 bombing of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which killed four girls she knew, was among the decisive events that turned intellectual study into political commitment.
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"Angela Davis deserves credit for the dignity and courage with which she has lived her life"
— SFGate
"Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis, open, relentless, and on time!"
— June Jordan
"Angela Davis stays on the pulse of what’s important"
— Common
"Angela Davis has stood her ground on every issue important to the health of our people and the planet"
— Alice Walker
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— Robin D. G. Kelley
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— Bust Magazine
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— O, The Oprah Magazine
"Prof. Angela Y. Davis stands in that proud, radical tradition"
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
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— Chandra Talpade Mohanty
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