![]() ![]() She argues forthrightly for "decarceration," and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole. Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1944, Davis studied at. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. Over the last forty-odd years, ANGELA YVONNE DAVIS has been active in numerous organizations challenging prison-related repression. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political, and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable. Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Similarly, the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. ![]() ![]() For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in. With her characteristic brilliance, grace, and radical audacity, Angela Y. With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. ![]() #36 in Bestselling Politics & Economy Audiobooks ![]()
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