James Joy (Williams College Usa)
James Joy (Williams College Usa) - Contextualizing Angela Davis The Agency And Identity Of An Icon - Paperback
James Joy (Williams College Usa) - Contextualizing Angela Davis The Agency And Identity Of An Icon - Paperback
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Description: Angela Davis is iconic as an international figure but few recognize the educational political and ideological contexts that formed the public persona. Excavating layers of networks activists academics polemicists and funders across the ideological spectrum Joy James studies the paradigms and platforms that leveraged Angela Davis into recognition as an activist and radical intellectual. Beginning in Alabama in 1944 with Davis's birthplace and ending in California in 1970 with a surrogate political family James investigates context in order to better understand the agency and identity of Davis. Her chronology marks key events relevant to Davis Black communities and the US: Anti Black repression under Jim Crow Black bourgeois southern families revolutionaries elite education communist parties international travels undergrad and graduate schooling all interconnect and play a part in Davis's rise in stature from persecution as a UC graduate student to the UC Presidential chair some three decades later. Set against the backdrop of 21st - century US democracy and the rise of neofascists James highlights of the centrality of those considered ancillary to US liberation movements. She unpacks the contradictions of iconography and revolutionary agency and shows how a triumphal figure from a symbolic era of struggle became the icon of the rare peoples victory.
Title: Contextualizing Angela Davis The Agency And Identity Of An Icon
Author(s): James Joy (Williams College Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350368637
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 1/25/2024
Series: Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies
Category: Ethnic Minorities & Multicultural Studies
Description: Angela Davis is iconic as an international figure but few recognize the educational political and ideological contexts that formed the public persona. Excavating layers of networks activists academics polemicists and funders across the ideological spectrum Joy James studies the paradigms and platforms that leveraged Angela Davis into recognition as an activist and radical intellectual. Beginning in Alabama in 1944 with Davis's birthplace and ending in California in 1970 with a surrogate political family James investigates context in order to better understand the agency and identity of Davis. Her chronology marks key events relevant to Davis Black communities and the US: Anti Black repression under Jim Crow Black bourgeois southern families revolutionaries elite education communist parties international travels undergrad and graduate schooling all interconnect and play a part in Davis's rise in stature from persecution as a UC graduate student to the UC Presidential chair some three decades later. Set against the backdrop of 21st - century US democracy and the rise of neofascists James highlights of the centrality of those considered ancillary to US liberation movements. She unpacks the contradictions of iconography and revolutionary agency and shows how a triumphal figure from a symbolic era of struggle became the icon of the rare peoples victory.
Title: Contextualizing Angela Davis The Agency And Identity Of An Icon
Author(s): James Joy (Williams College Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350368637
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 1/25/2024
Series: Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies
Category: Ethnic Minorities & Multicultural Studies
