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Angela Davis: Abolition Democracy and Global Politics

[audio:https://bcrw.barnard.edu/podcasts-bcrw/2008/Angela_Davis.mp3|titles=Angela Davis]

Delivering this year’s Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 lecture less than one week before Barack Obama’s presidential election, Angela Y. Davis presents a new and wide-ranging vision of the interconnections among issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, and prison abolition. Davis provides a critical exploration of concepts of civil rights and progress at a time of history-making political change. This lecture took place on October 30, 2008 at The Great Hall of Cooper Union.

(There is a short break in the recording at around 59:35. We apologize for the disruption.)

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