UCSC Press Release: Angela Davis to speak on prisons and racism

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January 6, 2000
Contact: Barbara McKenna (831) 459-2495; mckenna@cats.ucsc.edu
Downtown lecture to focus on prisons and racism
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SANTA CRUZ, CA--Angela Davis, professor of history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will present a talk titled "The Prisoner Exchange: The Underside of Civil Rights" on Thursday, January 13, from 7 to 8 p.m. at the McPherson Center for Art and History, 705 Front St. A reception follows.
Davis will explore issues of racism and punishment and historical and contemporary contradictions between civil rights and prisoners' rights. Last year Davis organized a nationally publicized three-day conference on the prison industrial complex. This spring she will be leading a universitywide conference on that topic. She is a member of the board of directors for both the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, which she co-chaired from 1973-1993, and the National Black Women's Health Project. She is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Prison Activist Resource Center. Davis is the author of Blues Legacies and Black Feminism (1998);Women, Culture, and Politics (1988); Women, Race, and Class (1982); and Angela Davis, An Autobiography (1974).
Her talk is presented as part of the Humanities Lecture Series, sponsored jointly by the Humanities Division and the Art Museum of Santa Cruz County. The series runs through June on the second Thursday of each month. For more information, call (831) 459-2696 or (831) 429-1964.
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January 6, 2000 Contact: Barbara McKenna (831) 459-2495; mckenna@cats.ucsc.edu Downtown lecture to focus on prisons and racism FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SANTA CRUZ, CA--Angela Davis, professor of history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will present a talk titled "The Prisoner Exchange: The Underside of Civil Rights" on Thursday, January 13, from 7 to 8 p.m. at the McPherson Center for Art and History, 705 Front St. A reception follows. Davis will explore issues of racism and punishment and historical and contemporary contradictions between civil rights and prisoners' rights. Last year Davis organized a nationally publicized three-day conference on the prison industrial complex. This spring she will be leading a universitywide conference on that topic. She is a member of the board of directors for both the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, which she co-chaired from 1973-1993, and the National Black Women's Health Project. She is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Prison Activist Resource Center. Davis is the author of Blues Legacies and Black Feminism (1998);Women, Culture, and Politics (1988); Women, Race, and Class (1982); and Angela Davis, An Autobiography (1974). Her talk is presented as part of the Humanities Lecture Series, sponsored jointly by the Humanities Division and the Art Museum of Santa Cruz County. The series runs through June on the second Thursday of each month. For more information, call (831) 459-2696 or (831) 429-1964. ##### Press Release Home \| Search Press Releases \| Press Release Archive \| Services for Journalists
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