The Political Lives of Angela Davis

This course looks at the "political lives" of Angela Y. Davis as an activist, organizer, public intellectual, and writer whose work has been in the public eye for more than fifty years. The course will be organized around readings of Davis's robust body of her life's work including essays written while she was imprisoned and to books that have become foundational in feminist scholarship. We will examine the enormous bevy of primary sources on Davis. We will also experiment with political writing in the form of the manifesto using Davis's writing as a basis for doing so.