Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

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In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.

Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-Apartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyzes today's struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine.

Facing a world of outrageous injustice, Davis challenges us to imagine and build the movement for human liberation. And in doing so, she reminds us that "Freedom is a constant struggle."

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.

One of America's most provocative public intellectuals, Dr. Cornel West has been a champion for racial justice since childhood. His writing, speaking, and teaching weave together the traditions of the black Baptist Church, progressive politics, and jazz. The New York Times has praised his "ferocious moral vision." His many books include Race Matters, Democracy Matters, and his autobiography, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud.

Frank Barat is a human rights activist and author. He was the coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine and is now the president of the Palestine Legal Action Network. His books include Gaza in Crisis and Corporate Complicity in Israel's Occupation.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Davis, Angela Y.
  • ISBN: 9781608465644
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.40 x 0.50
  • Number Of Pages: 176
  • Publication Year: 2016

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  • “It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.”

    Jennifer E. - 4 years 10 months ago

    We are living in a global pandemic. Immediately this brings to mind a threat to our physical health; however, other global pandemics precede the one in which we currently find ourselves--sexual violence, racism, genocide, settler colonialism, etc. In her collection of speeches Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, Angela Y. Davis expresses that our greatest challenge and most effective antidote to injustice is intersectionality. “Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories. And often we discover that those other stories are actually our own stories...This is a dialectical process that requires us to constantly to retell our stories, to revise our them...and relaunch them.” “We cannot assume that it is possible to be victorious in any antiracist movement as long as we don’t consider...how gender and sexuality and class and nationality figure into those struggles.” Davis explores transnational solidarity of resistance among three of my favorite homes around the globe--my home for a summer Palestine, my home for a year Turkey, my home forever Chicago. “It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.”