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Writer-Activist Angela Davis Comes to Portland


Reed College's 2009 Black History Month celebration brings internationally known writer, scholar, and activist Angela Davis to campus.

SAVE THE DATE:
Saturday, February 21, 2009, at 7 p.m.
Kaul Auditorium, Reed College

Angela Davis is an internationally known writer, scholar, and activist who has been deeply involved in the struggle for economic, racial, and gender equality in the United States. Davis’ teaching career has taken her to San Francisco State University, Mills College, and UC Berkeley. She has also taught at UCLA, Vassar, the Claremont Colleges, and Stanford University. She has spent the last 15 years at UC Santa Cruz where she is professor of the History of Consciousness, an interdisciplinary Ph.D program, and professor of Feminist Studies. Davis is the author of eight books and has lectured throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America.

In recent years, her work has focused on the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She draws upon her own experiences in the early ’70s, when she spent 18 months in jail and on trial after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.” She has conducted extensive research on numerous issues related to race, gender, and imprisonment. Her most recent books are Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (Seven Stories Press, 2005) and Are Prisons Obsolete? (Seven Stories Press, 2003). She is now completing a book on prisons and American history.

Read an interview with Angela on PBS' Frontline.

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