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Dr. Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, academician, and writer who has navigated and discussed issues of race, class, gender, and USA social policies across her 75 years of life. Davis's activism established her as the icon of a larger social movement and further related to her decision-making and legacy. Using psychobiographical methods, data were gathered through publicly available sources to explore Davis's personal, professional, and representational life, as well as understand Davis's lived experience through a socio-cultural-historical perspective. Two established theories, Social Cognitive Career Theory and Politicized Collective Identity model, were applied to Davis's life. Findings suggested that in addition to her unique intersectional identities, a confluence of factors including growing up in a family of activists, incarceration, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) surveillance, Communist Party involvement, marginalization within activist spaces, and practicing radical self-care impacted Davis committing to a life as an activist, academic, and the leader of a social movement.

Dr. Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, academician, and writer who has navigated and discussed issues of race, class, gender, and USA social policies across her 75 years of life. Davis's activism established her as the icon of a larger social movement and further related to her decision-making and legacy. Using psychobiographical methods, data were gathered through publicly available sources to explore Davis's personal, professional, and representational life, as well as understand Davis's lived experience through a socio-cultural-historical perspective. Two established theories, Social Cognitive Career Theory and Politicized Collective Identity model, were applied to Davis's life. Findings suggested that in addition to her unique intersectional identities, a confluence of factors including growing up in a family of activists, incarceration, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) surveillance, Communist Party involvement, marginalization within activist spaces, and practicing radical self-care impacted Davis committing to a life as an activist, academic, and the leader of a social movement. ; peerReviewed ; publishedVersion

A review article on a book by: Angela Y. Davis, Women, Culture and Politics (New York: Random House, 1989 [see listing in IRPS No. 59]). It is suggested that this collection of speeches & articles written for a global, popular audience, continue the cool, but passionate examination of the issues raised in Women, Race and Class (New York: Random House, 1981). Several chapters elaborate Davis's belief that progressive changes in women's lives are most likely to occur from their having work in the public domain or participation in production for exchange. Focused on here is the chapter on Egypt in which Davis interprets the spreading use of the veil as indicative of women's loss of economic power, & clitoridectomy as an index of women's subordination; however, anthropological research has shown little connection between clitoridectomy & socioeconomic status, but a strong religious & cultural connection. It is argued here that the focus on clitoridectomy as a political issue has distorted the image of Egyptian women. V. Wagener

This book is a collection of speeches and articles written for popular journals and books. Davis consistently shows both how racial sensibilities and gender strategies may be incorporated into class relations and how race, class, and gender as distinctive forces shape the construction of particular ideologies, political actions, and forms of resistance. (PAS)

Enlistment record from 15th New York National Guard. Includes occupation, age, address, birthplace, height, eye color, hair color, complexion, etc.