Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon

by Joy James

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350368636
• ISBN13: 9781350368637
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"