Angela Davis is iconic as an international figure but few recognize
the educational, political and ideological contexts that formed the
public persona. Excavating layers of networks, activists,
academics, polemicists, and funders across the ideological
spectrum, Joy James studies the paradigms and platforms that
leveraged Angela Davis into recognition as an activist and radical
intellectual. Beginning in Alabama in 1944 with Davis’s
birthplace and ending in California in 1970 with a surrogate
political family, James investigates context in order to better
understand the agency and identity of Davis. Her chronology marks
key events relevant to Davis, Black communities, and the US:
AntiBlack repression under Jim Crow, Black bourgeois southern
families, revolutionaries, elite education, communist parties,
international travels, undergrad and graduate schooling—all
interconnect and play a part in Davis's rise in stature from
persecution as a UC graduate student to the UC Presidential chair
some three decades later. Set against the backdrop of 21st-century
US democracy and the rise of neofascists, James highlights of the
centrality of those considered ancillary to US liberation
movements. She unpicks the contradictions of iconography and
revolutionary agency and shows how a triumphal figure from a
symbolic era of struggle became the icon of the rare peoples’
victory.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies |
| Release date: |
2024 |
| Authors: |
Joy James
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
272 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-36862-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-350-36862-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781350368620 |
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