If They Come in the Morning

Resumen del libro

With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America's giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power

The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Angela, and including contributions from numerous radicals and commentators such as Black Panthers George Jackson, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Erica Huggins, this book is not only an account of Angela's incarceration and the struggles surrounding it, but also perhaps the most comprehensive and thorough analysis of the prison system of the United States and the figure embodied in Angela's arrest and imprisonment the political prisoner.

Since the book was written, the carceral system in the US has grown from strength to strength, with more of its black population behind bars than ever before. The scathing analysis of the role of prison and the policing of black populations offered by Angela and her comrades in this astonishing volume remains as relevant today as the day it was published.

Biografía del autor

Fue catedrática de la Universidad de California, Santa Cruz, en el Departamento de Estudios Afroamericanos y Feministas entre 1994 y 1997. Profesora vitalicia en el Departamento de Historia de la Conciencia de dicha universidad, ha sido miembro del Partido Comunista estadounidense desde 1968 y participó activamente en los movimientos que sacudieron Estados Unidos durante las décadas de 1960 y 1970. Entre sus libros cabe destacar "Are Prisons Obsolete?" (2003), "Blues legacies and Black Feminism" (1998), "Women, Culture x{0026} Politics" (1988) y "Angela Davis: An Autobiography" (1975).