Recording of Davis Talk Available for Loan
If you missed Angela Y. Davis' lecture in Sage Chapel on Sept. 18, a video recording of her talk is now available for loan through the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library.
Davis, a scholar, activist and professor of history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, spoke on, "The Prison: A Sign of U.S. Democracy? " In her talk, she discusses her views on prison abolition, drawing parallels between mass imprisonment and the model of democracy in the United States. By relying on issues such as the "War on Terror", secret prisons in Europe, Africa and the Middle East run by the C.I.A., and the United States' history with slavery, Davis attempts to answer what imprisonment really solves. Does it truly help prisoners to better themselves and serve as a means of rehabilitation, or is it just another form of slavery, in which prisoners are stripped of certain rights and liberties?
The video recording of her lecture, can be found on Cornell University Library's Gateway at https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=6136694&DB=local.