{"title":"Angela Davis","description":"Angela Davis é professora emérita da Universidade da Califórnia, filósofa e símbolo da luta pelos direitos civis, pelos direitos das mulheres e contra a discriminação social e racial nos Estados Unidos. Sua prisão nos anos 1970 resultou em uma campanha internacional por sua libertação, que foi retratada no documentário Libertem Angela Davis (2012). Angela é autora de vários livros, entre os quais A democracia da abolição, Estarão as prisões obsoletas?, Mulheres, raça e classe e Mulheres, cultura e política. Siga no Twitter: angeladavis_","products":[{"product_id":"estarao-as-prisoes-obsoletas","title":"Are prisons obsolete?","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e In \u003cem\u003e\"Are Prisons Obsolete?\"\u003c\/em\u003e , Angela Davis—a scholar, activist, and figurehead of the Black and feminist movements—critically examines the concept of incarceration as punishment in the country with the largest prison population in the world. Addressing the American past, the author points out how prisons, since their emergence in the country's penal landscape, have reproduced the slavery-based mindset that prevailed until abolition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e These structures of power and privilege, rooted in racism and sexism, have continued to this day, where a stint in prison seems to have become inevitable in the lives of the poor and minorities, criminalized by their very existence, for belonging to an undesirable segment of the population.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eSince the 1980s, prison construction and incarceration rates in the United States have grown exponentially, sparking significant public concern about the proliferation, privatization, and promise of massive profits from the prison system. However, these prisons house disproportionate numbers of ethnic minorities, revealing the system's entrenched racism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e It takes more than reforming the prison system to create less inhumane conditions—it's also necessary to seek alternatives to incarceration as a tool for criminal reform. And in this sense, it's impossible not to see the parallels between the anti-prison movement and the abolitionist movement: with this last great abolition of American life, we can finally begin to dismantle the structures that condemn so many to a life of misery and suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAre Prisons Obsolete?,\u003c\/em\u003e renowned activist Angela Davis clearly exposes the problems of the current prison system and proposes a radical transformation in the way society thinks about punishment: it is necessary to recognize that punishment “is not a consequence of crime in the simple, logical sequence offered by discourses that insist on the justice of imprisonment, but rather that punishment—primarily through incarceration (and sometimes death)—is linked to political projects, to corporations' desire for profit, and to media representations of crime.”\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159402922236,"sku":"9788574321486","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/34cb76d9dc985853ad24f90663d4d0ee_8c0ec29d-a279-4702-a38c-2cae2d4661bd.jpg?v=1778321784"},{"product_id":"a-democracia-da-abolicao","title":"The democracy of abolition","description":"\" \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolition Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e brings together a series of interviews given by Angela Y. Davis shortly after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, in which the renowned activist analyzes how historical systems of oppression such as slavery and lynching continue to influence and undermine democracy today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In her accounts, Angela Davis, one of America's most brilliant political figures, addresses law and resistance, institutionalized harassment, and the relationship between politics and prison. Davis discusses her own incarceration, her experience as an \"enemy of the state,\" and her time on the FBI's \"most wanted\" list. The author emphasizes the crucial role that international activism played in her case and that of many other political prisoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eDavis builds on W.E.B. Du Bois's thesis that, when Black people were freed from slavery in the United States, they were denied the full rights of other citizens. In addition, the American prison system (which now has the largest prison population in the world) operates to maintain dominance and control over entire populations. Davis explores the notion of \"abolition democracy\" as the democracy to come, a set of social relations free from oppression and injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176267989244,"sku":"9788574321431","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/a741bac916a0a3a23df2489fc95b882d.jpg?v=1778326727"},{"product_id":"a-democracia-da-abolicao-1","title":"The democracy of abolition","description":"In a series of interviews given shortly after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, Angela Y. Davis analyzes how historical systems of oppression, such as slavery and lynching, continue to influence and undermine democracy today. Davis draws on W.E.B. 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