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Angela Davis is one of the great legends of the Black liberation struggle in the United States. Ever since the days of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, she has tirelessly fought against injustice and oppression, often at great personal cost. As one of the pioneers of intersectional thinking, she was among the first to demonstrate how racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of oppression are inextricably linked and reinforce one another.

This volume contains interviews, articles and other texts that bring together Davis’s half-century of work as an activist and academic. We follow how her views on the theory and practice of resistance have evolved, from the era of the Black Power movement, through the campaign against apartheid and solidarity work with Palestine, to the struggle against racist police violence in organisations such as Black Lives Matter and queer-feminist movements. Running like a thread through her entire body of work is the idea that all these struggles are interconnected, that nothing can be understood in isolation, and that freedom can only be won through a ceaseless struggle.