Professor Angela Y. Davis will speak at UTEP as part of the African American Studies Program’s Lecture Series

Last Updated on Mon Feb 05 15:30:48 MST 2018

Originally published Tue Jan 23 11:50:11 MST 2018

By lfmartinez6

UTEP Communications

Feb. 7, 2018, 6:30 p.m.
Undergraduate Learning Center, Room 126
Professor Angela Y. Davis, a renowned academic, civil rights activist, scholar, women’s rights activist, humanitarian, author and a powerful voice for social justice, will speak at UTEP as part of the African American Studies Program’s Lecture Series.

Through her activism and scholarship over many decades, Professor Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice.

She is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex. Having helped to popularize the notion of a “prison industrial complex,” she now urges her audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement.

Professor Davis is the author of ten books and has lectured throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America. In recent years a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. 

The event is free and open to the public.