Angela Davis is distinguished professor emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She speaks about feminism, racial inequality, social change, identity and the violence of US culture necessary to perpetuate class and capital's hegemony. She addresses the campaign to eliminate the incarceration industry that promotes repression over restorative justice and speaks of the deinstitutionalization model that has seen success in other areas. She celebrates the peoples campaign and victory that challenged government repression and resulted in her exoneration from trumped up murder charges. Addressing endemic gun violence in the US, she says it is not only time to eliminate guns from the societal norm that they occupy but to remove them from the hands of the police as well.
University of Chicago: Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Political Science Department Office of Multicultural Student Affairs Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory Rockefeller Chapel
"The [lecture] is the culmination of yearlong series of public events and programs on Davisâ work jointly organized by the Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture, and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality through its Classics in Feminist Theory series. Earlier events included a roundtable discussion on the incarceration of women and a screening of Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, a new documentary about Davisâ life and activism.