In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.

Reflecting on the importance of Black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles - from the Black freedom movement to the South African antiapartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyzes today's struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine.

Facing a world of outrageous injustice, Davis challenges us to imagine and build the movement for human liberation. And in doing so, she reminds us that "freedom is a constant struggle."

Listening Length

5 hours and 47 minutes
Author

Angela Y. Davis
Narrator

Angela Davis, see all
Audible release date

September 13, 2016
Language

English
Publisher

Tantor Audio
ASIN

B01LO1WGPK
Version

Unabridged
Program Type

Audiobook
See all details

Read & Listen

between reading the Kindle book and listening to Audible audiobook.
Add the audiobook for a reduced price of $7.49 after you get the Kindle book as part of your Kindle Unlimited subscription.

Enjoy this audiobook free + more

Click above to get a preview of our newest plan - unlimited listening to select audiobooks, Audible Originals, and podcasts.
You will get an email reminder before your trial ends.
$7.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel online anytime.

Learn more about membership

Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company

List Price: $20.09

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible’s Conditions Of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice.

Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company

People who viewed this also viewed

Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1

People who bought this also bought

Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1

Related to this topic

Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1

Product details

Listening Length	5 hours and 47 minutes
Author	Angela Y. Davis
Narrator	Angela Davis, Coleen Marlo
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	September 13, 2016
Publisher	Tantor Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B01LO1WGPK
Best Sellers Rank	#103,217 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #114 in Civil Rights & Liberties (Audible Books & Originals) #214 in African American Demographic Studies (Audible Books & Originals) #350 in Black & African American History (Audible Books & Originals)

Important information

To report an issue with this product, click here.

Customer reviews

4.7 out of 5

1,831 global ratings

5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star

How customer reviews and ratings work

Sort reviews by

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Kollies-Cummings,Ute

a Must read for all who think this world needs to change

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2022

Verified Purchase

This is a work that needs to be in everyone’s bookshelf - and before being shelved to be read and discussed ans learnt from and implemented across the different continents and struggles we face against an - often considered- overwhelming system of oppression. It inspired hope, hope we all need in these trying times.

3 people found this helpful

Helpful

Walter O. Hecht

Recommended

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2016

Verified Purchase

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis, published in 2016. I first heard of Angela Davis when I was living in California and she was criticized by then Governor Ronald Reagan. This book is a collection of interviews and speeches by Davis. Read it if you want more information about why Colin Kaepernick refused to salute the flag during the playing of our national anthem. I recommend the book.

Our prisons are a means of controlling people of color and also a source of profit to the prison-industrial complex.

"The global prison-industrial complex is continually expanding as can be seen from the example of G4S*. Thus, one can assume that its profitability is rising. It has come to include not only public and private prisons (and public prisons, which are more privatized than one would think, are increasingly subject to the demands of profit) but also juvenile facilities, military prisons, and interrogation centers. Moreover, the most profitable sector of the private prison business is composed of immigrant detention centers. One can therefore understand why the most repressive anti-immigrant legislation in the United States was drafted by private prison companies as an undisguised attempt to maximize their profits."

*GS4 operates prisons around the world and is the 2nd or 3rd largest private employer in the world after Walmart.

6 people found this helpful

Helpful

matthew a. barrett

Fantastic Insights

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2020

Verified Purchase

This text is something every radical, activist, political enthusiast should read! She provides such a robust wealth of knowledge in such a coherent and logical flow in her insights. She expands on the parallels and intersectional relationships of institutions and movements in America and abroad as well as providing historical references that pose those institutions as abstractions of apartheid, slavery and racism. She deconstructs the "individual" as a destructive result of Capitalism and ultimately a dead end for social mobility. Not only does she point out the injustices but she also lays down what she believes needs to be done in this ongoing march to freedom. Remember that the personal is political and the struggle is intersectional so we must all unite for change. Loved it!

12 people found this helpful

Helpful

ShayMo29

Informative

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2022

Verified Purchase

This book integrates the plight of the U.S African American and the struggle across the globe. We are all interconnected and as stated in the book we are not free until we all are free.

3 people found this helpful

Helpful

Brian Foulks

Abolition at its finest

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2020

Verified Purchase

Dr. Angela Davis gives us new ways to reimagine abolition and freedom in the constant fight for justice. In the closing pages of the book, she proposing a thought that captures the essence of the entire work. She exposes what the neo-liberal project intends because of the fear of what abolition will actually perform. She completes this statement with: "But what I am saying is that we have to embrace projects that address sociohistorical conditions that enable these acts."

8 people found this helpful

Helpful

Amazon Customer

Current political issues

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2022

Verified Purchase

Add to my political knowledge knowlegr

Helpful

E. Richard

Brilliant. A life

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2016

Verified Purchase

Brilliant. A life, a BIG life, well lived. We can, particularly at this time,of highly visible (blatant) and deeply historically embedded systems and institutions of grave violence, all heed powerful lessons of organizing, speaking and acting, with an unyielding commitment to the increasingly dire necessity of truth to power. I mean REALLY, if not now, when? If not us, who? Angela digs deep into the depths of the greatest ills that plague us and calls us forward through her immense capacity to articulate the needs of our times through the power of words, stories, examples of the lives of others and her own. Do not read unless you are willing to get uncomfortable and engage in the hard work of attempting to make this a better world.

32 people found this helpful

Helpful

Another dissident.

Another classic work by Professor Davis!

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2021

Verified Purchase

Speaking Truth to Power (as always) - another fine work by Dr. Angela Davis. Once again, she connects the threads of oppression.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Joshua Habtwold

Probably one of the best books to read + Shipped and Packaged Very Well

Reviewed in Canada on August 20, 2020

Verified Purchase

UPDATE: WISDOM-MART is a company that ships their products very well and keeps it sustainable for the buyer to see and view their product. Although they tend to ship from Britain (which require longer times for parcel arrival), the condition of the book still remains top-notch and they ensure the best for the package to be very well. To conclude, I am 100% satisfied with my order.

With a book being as short as this, but with the magnificient teachings of Angela's experience of freedom and her use of feminist theory and intersectionality towards the issues of G4S security using privatized security in the realms of the health and education sector, the Palestinian prosion system, and so forth, the current US prison system and its formation of slaverys toward marginalized prisoners, and so forth, this book serves many wonders. And for me having experience in the security industry and finding out about the corruption of G4S Security and its corrupt workings, this shocked me as much more as anything else.

This book also serves a purpose to understand that the struggle for freedom in a society that still implements slavery in a covert manner and removing the rights of others in other aspects still plays a bigger issue in the idea of all as equal, and acknwoledging the acceptance of others, especially within marginalized groups (ex. poor and working Black women, Black Queers, and Black trans peoples).

3 people found this helpful

Josie Boyce

Easy to digest

Reviewed in Canada on May 17, 2021

Verified Purchase

Activism via interviews and speeches by Angela Davis. You can if you have her voice in your mind clearly hear her speak he words written. Well spoken

sabrimigna

amazing read

Reviewed in Canada on August 7, 2018

Verified Purchase

Angela Davis does it again.
clear, to the point.
I could not articulate these issues as well as she, always inspiring.

Kathleen King

but what I've read is great.

Reviewed in Canada on November 3, 2017

Verified Purchase

Angela Davis is so inspirational. I haven't finished this book, but what I've read is great.

Grace Report

Pretty good read

Reviewed in Canada on June 15, 2016

Verified Purchase

I was expecting it to be more cohesive and less repetitive. I also don't like how the interviewee acts like people from the African diaspora have to identify with any and every other movement. African opposition to allying with certain movements comes from a place of understanding the prejudice that said people generally have or have had towards "us", not ignorance.

Still a good read, though. I may pass it along to another friend when completely finished.

One person found this helpful

See more reviews