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    Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture
    Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture
    Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture
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    Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

    Written by Angela Y. Davis

    Narrated by Angela Y. Davis and Andrew Joseph Perez

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    Revelations about U.S. policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world's leading democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of America's most remarkable political figures, gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics, and prison. Davis talks about her own incarceration, as well as her experiences as "enemy of the state," and about having been put on the FBI's "most wanted" list. She talks about the crucial role that international activism played in her case and the case of many other political prisoners.



    Throughout these interviews, Davis returns to her critique of a democracy that has been compromised by its racist origins and institutions. Discussing the most recent disclosures about the disavowed "chain of command," and the formal reports by the Red Cross and Human Rights Watch denouncing U.S. violation of human rights and the laws of war in Guantánamo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Davis focuses on the underpinnings of prison regimes in the United States.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 24, 2023
    ISBN9781541406551
    Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture
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    Angela Y. Davis

    Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis is the recipient of the 2020 Cultural Freedom Prize from Lannan Foundation.

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