A special conversation between Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz, and Gina Dent, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies, UC Santa Cruz.
Moderated by Rachel Nelson, Director of UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences.
Filmed onsite at San José Museum of Art, November 18, 2020.
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Angela Y. Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, UCSC, is a renowned activist and scholar. For decades, Professor Davis has been at the forefront in our nation’s quest for economic, racial, and gender equality and social justice. She is the author of nine books, including her most recent book of essays called "The Meaning of Freedom."
Gina Dent, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies, UCSC is a committed activist, scholar, and educator. "Abolition. Feminism. Now." (Forthcoming, Haymarket Press) edited by Dent in collaboration with Angela Davis, Beth Richie, and Erica Meiners, grows out of her work as an advocate for human rights and prison abolition. She is the editor of "Black Popular Culture," and author of numerous articles on race, feminism, popular culture, and visual art.
Rachel Nelson, PhD, is director of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz and teaches in the History of Art and Visual Culture department. Nelson curates projects and writes extensively on contemporary art and geopolitics. She is currently working on a monograph, Seeing in Whiteout, focusing on the strategies contemporary artists use to reveal and disturb the racialized histories and presents of prisons and policing in the United States. Recent publications include "In Perpetual Conflict" in Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today, Oxford University Press, 2020, as well as exhibition catalog essays, journal articles, and reviews, including in "Brooklyn Rail," "NKA," "Third Text," "Savvy," and "African Arts."
