EPISODE · Oct 30, 2008 · 1H 40M
Angela Davis
from Barnard Center for Research on Women · host Barnard Center for Research on Women
Delivering this year's Helen Pond McIntyre '48 lecture less than one week before Barack Obama's presidential election, Angela Y. Davis presents a new and wide-ranging vision of the interconnections among issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, and prison abolition. Davis provides a critical exploration of concepts of civil rights and progress at a time of history-making political change. This lecture took place on October 30, 2008 at The Great Hall of Cooper Union. (There is a short break in the recording at around 59:35. We apologize for the disruption.)
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Delivering this year's Helen Pond McIntyre '48 lecture less than one week before Barack Obama's presidential election, Angela Y. Davis presents a new and wide-ranging vision of the interconnections among issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, and prison abolition. Davis provides a critical exploration of concepts of civil rights and progress at a time of history-making political change. This lecture took place on October 30, 2008 at The Great Hall of Cooper Union. (There is a short break in the recording at around 59:35. We apologize for the disruption.)
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