In 1994, she received the distinguished honor of an appointment to the University of California Presidential Chair in African American and Feminist Studies. She has spent the last fifteen years at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she is now Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness, an interdisciplinary doctoral program, and of feminist studies. She applies Marxist analysis to the relation of class and race to capitalism in America. She also has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, Vassar College, the Claremont Colleges and Stanford University. Women, Race and Class is a collection of 13 essays about the American women's liberation movement from the 1960s up to the point at which the book was published, and also about slavery in the United States. Davis Reader Are Prisons Obsolete? a new edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Meaning of Freedom.ĭavis’ teaching career has taken her to San Francisco State University, Mills College and the University of California, Berkeley. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is the author of nine books, including Angela Davis: An Autobiography Women, Race, and Class Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday The Angela Y. She has an international scholarly reputation and has made original contributions in social and political philosophy, critical theory, African American studies, feminist philosophy, and cultural studies (popular music and photography).

She is a living witness to the historical struggles of the contemporary era and her areas of work include the complex relationship between gender, race, and class oppressions, as well as critical studies of incarceration. Over the years she has been active as a student, teacher, writer, scholar, and activist/organizer. Davis is a prolific, wide-ranging, and highly influential philosopher and public intellectual.

Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S.

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