Angela Davis and Assata Shakur as Outlaws

Mechthild Nagel, State University of New York (SUNY), Cortland, is publishing Angela Y Davis and Assata Shakur as Women Outlaws: Resisting U.S. State Violence, in volume 13 of Wagadu: A Transnational Journal of Women's and Gender Studies (Summer 2015). Here is the abstract.

Angela Y Davis and Assata Olugbala Shakur have many overlapping histories of struggle in the face of state repression. Both revolutionary freedom fighters were captured after spending time underground as a result of intense surveillance and being marked for outlaw status. They continue to speak out against racist and sexist injustices and global capitalism.

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