Angela Y. Davis

Angela Y. Davis

Angela Davis is Professor Emerita at the History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz. Over the last thirty years, she has been active in numerous organisations challenging prison-related repression. Her advocacy on behalf of political prisoners led to three capital charges, sixteen months in jail awaiting trial, and a highly publicised campaign then acquittal in 1972. She is the author of seven books, including Women, Race & Class and Are Prisons Obsolete?