Angela davis biography summary of winston
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NEW YORK – An overflow crowd in the Winston Unity Hall here heard Angela Davis, the iconic scholar, prison reform activist, socialist and former political prisoner, speak on the theme, “Defeating Racism – Central to Defeating the Right Danger.”
The Feb. 26 event, the annual celebration in New York of African American culture and struggles, featured a mix of working-class culture, educational presentations, and progressive politics.
If this year the country saw much racist violence, the event saw people gathered to draw strength from the gathering so they could leave better equipped to continue the struggle not just in the streets but in the 2014 elections.
CPUSA Executive Vice Chair Jarvis Tyner hailed Davis “whose courage is legendary, who stood up to the most powerful people in the world. In coming back to prove her innocence, she expressed confidence in you, the people, that the truth will set us free.” He urged everyone to see the recent movie Free Angela.
Tyner placed Davis’ remarks in the context of an ultra right seeking to roll back the gains of the civil rights movement, the women’s movement and the New Deal. Speaking to many generations in the room – those radicalized by her defense case, those who had
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Abstract
Dr. Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, academician, and writer who has navigated and discussed issues of race, class, gender, and USA social policies across her 75 years of life. Davis’s activism established her as the icon of a larger social movement and further related to her decision-making and legacy. Using psychobiographical methods, data were gathered through publicly available sources to explore Davis’s personal, professional, and representational life, as well as understand Davis’s lived experience through a socio-cultural-historical perspective. Two established theories, Social Cognitive Career Theory and Politicized Collective Identity model, were applied to Davis’s life. Findings suggested that in addition to her unique intersectional identities, a confluence of factors including growing up in a family of activists, incarceration, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) surveillance, Communist Party involvement, marginalization within activist spaces, and practicing radical self-care impacted Davis committing to a life as an activist, academic, and the leader of a social movement.
Keywords: Angela Y. Davis, psychobiography, careerography, social cognitive career theory, politicized collective identity
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