The Angela Y. Davis reader / edited by Joy James.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-348) and index.

Pt. I. Prisons, Repression, and Resistance. 1. Excerpts from Angela Davis: An Autobiography. 2. Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation. 3. Unfinished Lecture on Liberation - II. 4. Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry. 5. From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison: Frederick Douglass and the Convict Lease System. 6. Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition -- Pt. II. Marxism, Anti-Racism, and Feminism. 7. Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves. 8. Rape, Racism, and the Capitalist Setting. 9. Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Challenge to Racism. 10. JoAnne Little: The Dialectics of Rape. 11. Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation. 12. The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective. 13. Surrogates and Outcast Mothers: Racism and Reproductive Politics in the Nineties. 14. Black Women and the Academy -- Pt. III. Aesthetics and Culture.

15. Art on the Frontline: Mandate for a People's Culture. 16. I Used To Be Your Sweet Mama: Ideology, Sexuality, and Domesticity. 17. Underexposed: Photography and Afro-American History. 18. Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia. 19. Meditations on the Legacy of Malcolm X. 20. Black Nationalism: The Sixties and the Nineties -- Pt. IV. Interviews. 21. Coalition Building Among People of Color: A Discussion with Angela Y. Davis and Elizabeth Martinez. 22. Reflections on Race, Class, and Gender in the USA -- Pt. V. Appendix. Opening Defense Statement Presented by Angela Y. Davis in Santa Clara County Superior Court, March 29, 1972.