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Angela Davis

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Also known as Angela Y. Davis, Angela Yvonne Davis.

American political activist, scholar, and author (born 1944)

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Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author born in 1944 who has been a prominent voice in civil rights and social justice movements. Her work and activism have made her a significant figure in discussions about race, incarceration, and political freedom in the United States.

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Vinony catalogs Angela Davis in its Time 100 collection (508 entries). It also appears in American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Vinony's link graph records 2,669 inbound references to Angela Davis, and connects out to University of California, Los Angeles, 1980 United States presidential election and Socialist Equality Party.

Vinony files it under 1944 births, 1980 United States vice-presidential candidates and 1984 United States vice-presidential candidates.

Vinony links it to 68 Wikipedia language editions.

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Born
1956
Works
5

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  • Policing the Black Man
  • Trial stories
  • Black Letter Outline on Basic Criminal Procedure
  • Criminal Law
  • Arbitrary justice

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Origin
United States
Active from
1926-05-26
Active to
1991-09-28
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Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an African-American left-wing political activist, academic, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist in the 1960s working with the Communist Party USA, of which she was a member until 1991, and was briefly involved with the Black Panthers. She is a professor emerita at University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History Department. She is also a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department. <a href="https:/

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5 total works indexed

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    · 2012 · cited 51,115x

  2. Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology

    · 1989 · cited 45,551x

  3. <tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

    · 2009 · cited 39,714x

  4. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,923x

  5. User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1

    · 2003 · cited 31,144x

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Quotes

  • “It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.”
  • “Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.”
  • “Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.”
  • “The challenge of the twenty-first century is not to demand equal opportunity to participate in the machinery of oppression. Rather, it is to identify and dismantle those structures in which racism continues to be embedded. This is the only way the promise of freedom can be extended to masses of people.”
  • “The reason I am a communist is because I believe in a total revolution which is going to overthrow the capitalist control of the economy, which will seize the wealth from all of the giant corporations that exploit and control the lives of all working people.”
  • “When you talk about a revolution, most people think violence; without realizing that the real content of any kind of revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you're striving for - not in the way that you reach them. On the other hand, because of the way this society is organized; because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere - you'd have to expect that there are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that as reactions.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and Marxist feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, author and social theorist. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), running for Vice President in the 1980 and 1984 elections under that party. She is also a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). She has been active in movements such as the Occupy movement and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.

Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama; she studied at Brandeis University and the University of Frankfurt. She also studied at the University of California, San Diego, before moving to East Germany, where she completed some studies for a doctorate at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. After returning to the United States, she joined the CPUSA and became involved in the second-wave feminist movement and the campaign against the Vietnam War.

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