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A Boitempo publica pela primeira vez no Brasil Uma autobiografia, de Angela Davis. Lançada originalmente em 1974, a obra é um retrato contundente das lutas sociais nos Estados Unidos durante os anos 1960 e 1970 pelo olhar de uma das maiores ativistas de nosso tempo. Davis, à época com 28 anos, narra a sua trajetória, da infância à carreira como professora universitária, interrompida por aquele que seria considerado um dos mais importantes...
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Qual é o sentido da liberdade? Ao longo de décadas de trabalho, a filósofa Angela Davis se dedica a analisar a questão que dá título a este livro e a propor caminhos para extinguir todas as formas de opressão que negam aos sujeitos liberdade política, cultural e sexual.
Publicados pela primeira vez em português, os doze textos que compõem o livro foram palestras realizadas por Angela Davis entre 1994 e 2009 e abordam a relação entre neoliberalismo,...
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This new edition of Angela Davis's classic Autobiography features an expansive new introduction by the author.
Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison-abolitionist movements for more than fifty years.
Angela Davis: An Autobiography, first published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974, is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in these struggles.
Davis describes...
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This unique audiobook from historian and author Geoffrey Giuliano chronicles the life, times, trials, and triumphs of the remarkable scholar, activist, feminist, teacher, and reformer Angela Davis, using informed commentary, but most significantly, the words and wisdom of Ms. Davis herself. Forget the rhetoric, rumors, and urban legends surrounding this polarizing figure and listen directly to Ms. Davis. Prison reform, civil rights, racial equality...
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This unique audiobook from historian and author Geoffrey Giuliano chronicles the life, times, trials, and triumphs of the remarkable scholar, activist, feminist, teacher, and reformer Angela Davis, using informed commentary, but most significantly, the words and wisdom of Ms. Davis herself. Forget the rhetoric, rumors, and urban legends surrounding this polarizing figure and listen directly to Ms. Davis. Prison reform, civil rights, racial equality...
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2021
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xxx, 358 pages ; 24 cm
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Angela Y. Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements. Fifty years after its original publication, the author revisits her life's story in print.
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En la vida de toda persona comprometida políticamente, existe una tensión inevitable entre la necesidad de pronunciarse sobre los problemas que presenta la actualidad y la aspiración a que esos análisis que brotan de las circunstancias resistan la prueba del tiempo y se desvinculen de los límites del hic et nunc para convertirse en referencias universales.
Así, el mayor reto para un activista es responder adecuadamente a las necesidades del...
9) Hephzibah
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You may have heard "Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover." My life right here, right now, is an open book.
Dramatic, inspirational, and heartwarming are a few words to describe this book. Take a look for yourself, and hopefully, you will be touched and motivated by my life story.
Jesus Christ died for me so I can have help from the Holy Ghost to overcome this evil world in which I live. Every day you and I fight against our flesh, and every day the living...
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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...
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Angela Davis has survived what many would consider the unspeakable. Restoration: Revolving Doors reveals her amazing journey as she discovers how the power of God can a change a human life, and even an entire family. Regardless of deeds steeped in unbearable pain, generational curses of drugs and alcohol addiction, unthinkable violence at the hands of the man she loved, and mental illness that would leave any person immobile, useless, or even dead......
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Lifes funny ways is a book of poems about reconnecting with your inner spirit. The ways in which we are reminded of our strengths, our weaknesses, our ego, our pride. The journey we travel, along the road with You - even when we dont know it. The way that You try to guide us - it can be a very bumpy ride! You try to help us with humour, with love and compassion, but, Sometimes we fail to listen. You keep trying and trying. So, When all else fails...
14) MasterClass Presents: Black History, Black Freedom, and Black Love - Season 1: Meet Your Instructors
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In Part I of a three-part class, seven Black scholars invite you to learn the American history not taught in schools. Examine white supremacy and its antithesis, Black love; explore the 1619 Project and the origins of slavery; and begin to reshape the conversations on race in America.
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"Barbara Jefferson, a young American teaching in Tokyo in the 1960s, is set on a life-changing quest when her Japanese surrogate mother, Michi, dies, leaving her a tansu of homemade plum wines wrapped in rice paper. Within the papers Barbara discovers writings in Japanese calligraphy that comprise a startling personl narrative. With the help of her translator, Seiji Okada, Barbara begins to unravel the mysteries of Michi's life, a story that begins...
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Durante las últimas décadas, el trabajo intelectual y la actividad política de Angela Davis se han centrado en lo que ella denomina el «abolicionismo de la prisión». Este comprende una triple abolición: la abolición de la pena de muerte; la abolición del complejo industrial-penitenciario, que debe también incluir la abolición de sus componentes militares, como la tortura y el terror, y la abolición de todos los rastros y herencias de la...
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On August 7, 1970, a revolt by Black prisoners in a Marin County courthouse stunned the nation. In its aftermath, Angela Davis, an African American activist-scholar who had campaigned vigorously for prisoners' rights, was placed on the FBI's "ten most wanted list." Captured in New York City two months later, she was charged with murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy. Her trial, chronicled in this "compelling tale" (Publishers Weekly), brought strong...
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What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural, and sexual freedom. In this collection of twelve searing, previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts the interconnected issues of power, race, gender, class, incarceration, conservatism, and the ongoing need for social change in the United States....
