“7 Lessons in 1 Abolitionist Movement,” Abolition Journal, Ground Zero Issue, 2015. – Police and Prison Abolitionism
“Academia, Activism, and Imprisoned Intellectuals,” Social Justice, Vol. 30, No. 2 (92), 2003. – Police and Prison Abolitionism
“The Academic Addict,” What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question, Geoge Yancy, ed., New York: Routledge, 2004. – Literary Theory
“Activist Scholars or Radical Subjects?” Afterword coauthored with Edmund T. Gordon in Charles Hale, ed., Activist Scholars, University of California Press, 2008. – Political Theory
“AfraRealism and the Black Matrix,” Special Issue on the Role of Black Philosophy, The Black Scholar, Vol. 43. No.4, 2013. – Political Theory
“African American Women Writers, Activists and Interracial Rape Cases,” Black Women in America, Kim Vaz, ed. (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 1994). – Radicalizing Feminisms
“American Prison Notebooks,” Race and Class, January 2004. – Police and Prison Abolitionism
“Angela Davis: A Life Committed to Liberation Praxis,” Abafazi: The Simmons College Review of Women of African Descent, Vol. 8, No. 1, Fall/Winter 1997. – Police and Prison Abolitionism
“Antiracist (Pro) Feminisms and Coalition Politics: No Justice, No Peace,” in Men Doing Feminism, Tom Digby, ed., New York: Routledge, 1997. – Radicalizing Feminisms
“Black Feminism,” Encyclopedia of Feminism, New York: Routledge, 2001. – Radicalizing Feminisms
“Black Feminism in Liberation Limbos” in Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy, Lewis Gordon, ed., New York: Routledge, 1996. – Political Theory
The Black Feminist Reader, co-edited with T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. – Radicalizing Feminisms
“Black Lives: From Grief to Activism,” NYT Opinionator with George Yancy, 24 December 2014. – Diasporic Anti-Black Racism
“Black Revolutionary Icons and ‘NeoSlave Narratives’,” Social Identities, Spring 1999. – Literary Theory
“Black Suffering in Search of the ‘Beloved Community’” TranScripts, UC Irvine graduate student journal, 2011. – Diasporic Anti-Black Racism
“‘Bread and Land’: Fanon’s Native Intellectual,” Afterword for Fanon: A Critical Reader, Lewis Gordon, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Renee White, eds., Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996. – Political Theory
“Captive Maternal Love: Octavia Butler and SciFi Family Values,” in Feminist Writing and the Emergence of Feminist Theory, Robin Goodman, ed. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015. – Captive Maternals
“‘Campaigns against “Blackness”’: Criminality, Incivility, and Election to Executive Office, Critical Sociology 36(1) 25-44, Sage Publications, 2010. – Electoral and Presidential Politics
“The Case of Ben LaGuer and the 2006 Massachusetts Gubernatorial Election,” in State of White Supremacy: Racism, Governance and the United States, Moon-Kie Jung, Joao H. Costa Vargas, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, eds., Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011. – Electoral and Presidential Politics
“’Concerning Violence’: Frantz Fanon’s Rebel Intellectual in Search of a Black Cyborg,” South Atlantic Quarterly 112:1, Duke University Press 2013. – Political Theory
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“Cracking the Codes of Black Power Struggles,” with Ahmad Hayes Greene, The Black Scholar, Special Issue: Black Code,” Vol. 47. No. 3, 2017. – Political Theory
“The Dead Zone: Stumbling at the Crossroads of Party Politics, Genocide and Postracial Racism, South Atlantic Quarterly, 108:3, Duke University Press 2009. – Electoral and Presidential Politics
“Democracy and Captivity,” Introduction to Joy James, ed. The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Prison Writing, New York: SUNY Press, 2005. – Police and Prison Abolitionism
““DO SOMETHING ETHICAL”
Critical Thinking, Theorizing, and Political Will ,” in Educating for Critical Consciousness, edited by George Yancey, CRC Press, May 2019. – Political Theory
“The Dysfunctional and the Disappearing; Democracy, Race and Imprisonment,” Social Identities, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2000. – Police and Prison Abolitionism
Contributions in Black Studies, guest editor, “Expanding Northamerican and Cuban Dialogues,” Volume 12 Ethnicity, Gender, Culture, & Cuba, 1994. – Radicalizing Feminisms
“Experience, Reflection, Judgment, and Action: Teaching Theory, Talking Community.” in Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, Diane Bell and Renate Klein, eds., Australia: Spinifex Press, 1995. – Radicalizing Feminisms
“Foreword,” in Frantz Fanon, Conflicts & Feminisms, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. – Radicalizing Feminisms
“Framing the Panthers: Assata Shakur and Black Female Agency,” in Jeanne TheoHarris and Komozi Woodard, eds. Women in the Black Revolt. New York: NYU Press, 2009. – Radicalizing Feminisms
“‘Gender, Race, and Radicalism’: Teaching the Autobiographies of Native and African American Women Activists,” Feminist Teacher, Vol. 8, No. 3, Spring 1995. – Radicalizing Feminisms
Imprisoned Intellectuals. Baltimore/Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. part 1. -Political Prisoners
Imprisoned Intellectuals. Baltimore/Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. part 2. -Political Prisoners
“Imprisoned Intellectuals: War, Dissent, and Social Justice.” Radical History Review, vol. 85, 2003. – Diasporic Anti-Black Racism
“Killmonger’s Captive Maternal is MIA: Black Panther’s Family Drama, Imperial Masters, and Portraits of Freedom,” Southern California Library. 2019. – Captive Maternals
“Leadership,” Keywords for Radicals, Kelley Fritsch, et al., eds., NY: AK Press, 2015. – Literary Theory
“Lessons from the Past: Black Activism in the Revolutionary Era,” The North Star, 2019. – Political Theory
“Letter to the Editor,” Williams College Record, 2019. – Community Connections
Foreword “Liberation Pedagogies,” Olivia Perlow et al., eds. Black Women’s Liberatory Pedagogies. New York: Palgrave, 2017. – Political Theory
Transcript of “Love and Justice” Panel with Shapearl Faulkner-Wells and Dorothy Holmes, April 2019. – Community Connections
“The Masked Assassination of George Jackson” in Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy, Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. -Political Prisoners
“Paradigms of Exclusion and the ‘Integration’ of Multiculturalism,” The Black Scholar, Vol. 23, No. 3, Fall 1993. – Diasporic Anti-Black Racism
“Political Literacy and Voice,” Afterword in South End Editorial Collective, ed., What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation, Cambridge: South End Press, 2007. – Diasporic Anti-Black Racism
“Political Trauma,” Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st Century Feminist Theory, Robin Goodman, ed. 2018 (forthcoming). – Radicalizing Feminisms
“Politicizing the Spirit: American Africanisms and African Ancestors in the Essays of Toni Morrison,” Cultural Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2, Spring 1995. – Political Theory
“The Profeminist Politics of W. E. B. Du Bois— with Respects to Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells Barnett,” The Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois , Bernard Bell, James Stewart, Emily Grosholz, eds., New York: Routledge, 1996. – Radicalizing Feminisms
“The Quartet in the Political Persona of Ida B. Wells,” The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race, Naomi Zack, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). – Radicalizing Feminisms
Race and the Space of Black Women’s Voices” (Interview/Dialogue), On Race: 34 Conversations in time of Crisis, George Yancey ed., New York: Oxford UP, 2017. – Captive Maternals
“Radicalizing Black Feminism,” Race and Class (Spring 1999); reprint in Tommy Lott, ed., A Companion to African-American Philosophy,Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. – Radicalizing Feminisms
“Reflections on Teaching: ‘Gender, Race, and Class’,” Feminist Teacher Vol.5, No.3, Spring 1991. – Literary Theory
co-authored with Joao Costa Vargas, “Refusing Blackness-as-Victimization: Trayvon Martin and the Black Cyborgs,” Pursuing Trayvon Martin, George Yancy, Janine Jones, eds., Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2012. – Diasporic Anti-Black Racism
“Resting in Gardens, Battling in Deserts: Black Women’s Activism,” The Black Scholar, Vol. 29, No. 4, Winter 1999. – Radicalizing Feminisms
“A Review of Bettina Aptheker’s Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis,” The Black Scholar, 2001. – Political Prisoners
“The Roots of Black Incarceration: A Review of Austin Reed’s The Haunted Convict. Boston Review, Boston Review, February 2016. – Police and Prison Abolitionism
Seeking the Beloved Community, State University of New York Press, Albany, 2013. – Radicalizing Feminisms
Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. part1 – Radicalizing Feminisms
Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. part2 – Radicalizing Feminisms
Note: Shadowboxing is split arbitrarily on this site due to file size limitations. Correction edit: Angela Y. Davis received her doctorate from Humboldt University in East Berlin.
“Sorrow: The Good Soldier and Good Woman,” in Joy James, Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. – Captive Maternals
“Sorrow, Tears, and Blood”: Black Leadership, Fractionation and the Talented Tenth, Viewpoint, January 2015. – Literary Theory
“Sovereign Kinship and the President Elect,” in Barack Obama and the New Black Politics, Manning Marable, et. al eds., New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. – Electoral and Presidential Politics
2019, DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2018.1521690 – Captive Maternals
“The Talented Tenth,” Johnella Butler, ed., Encyclopedia of American Studies, Bethel, CT: Grolier Publishing, 2000. – Literary Theory
Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals, New York: Routledge, 1997. – Literary Theory
“The (Un)Fair Fight for a Just Democracy,” The Feminist Wire, November 2018. – Community Connections
Radical Philosophy Review, guest editor, “Unfinished Liberation: Policing and Imprisonment,” Vol. 2, No. 3, 2001. – Political Theory
“U.S. policy in Panama,” Race & Class Vol. 32, July-September 1990. – Diasporic Anti-Black Racism
“Violations,” Introduction to Joy James, ed., Warfare: The American Homeland and Prison, Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. – Police and Prison Abolitionism
“W. E. B. Du Bois: Twentieth Century ‘Radical Prophet’,” Johnella Butler, ed., Encyclopedia of American Studies, Bethel, CT: Grolier Publishing, 2000. – Literary Theory
“The Womb of Western Theory: Trauma, Time Theft and the Captive Maternal,” Carceral Notebooks, Vol. 12, 2016. – Captive Maternals