Angela Davis

Introduction Disciplinary practices have always been at the foundation of the U.S. correctional system (Arrigo & Bullock, 2008; Bennion, 2015; Cockrell, 2013). Inquiring the various ways of punishing and correcting inmates’ behavior has offered a prolific terrain to study prisons’ social and physical environments. In this view, several scholars emphasized the widely used practice of solitary confinement as a social phenomenon that warrants particular attention (Bennion, 2015; Arrigo, & Bullock,…

like the long hot summer of 1967, in some media outlets these riots have been depicted in a way that shows protesters as criminals, looters and “thugs”. Similar terms were once used to describe Civil Rights activists Rosa Parks, Assata Shakur, Angela Davis, Fred Hampton, and Martin Luther…

The next role of Sarah Lund to be examined is that of the mother. Lund is a single mother of an adolescent son, but she does not provide the traditional model of responsible ‘neoliberal’ motherhood. Angela Davis purports that “although the ‘housewife’ was rooted in the social conditions of the bourgeoisie and middle classes, nineteenth-century ideology established the housewife and mother as universal models of womanhood” (1981, p. 229). Since then, different waves of feminism, and contemporary…

Considering the recent presidential election, the idea of changing one’s hair to fit the paradigms of society coincides with Muslim women’s struggle with wearing their hijabs in the modern world. Similar to Harris-Perry’s idea that stereotyping makes black women conform to the “crooked room,” the fear of being shipped away has women, Muslim Americans questioning whether they should continue wearing their hijabs. Both, the black women in Harris-Perry’s book and Islamic women are perpetually in a…

Industrialization was in full force throughout most of the United States and the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 allowed the “peculiar institution” to become the most profitable industry in the world. The cotton gin streamlined the laborious task of cotton sorting. Cotton soon surpassed tobacco as the United States’ most valued export. Cotton processed in the south was processed in textile plants in New England, which was bolstered by Elias Howe’s invention of the first,…

The article which created a dichotomy between situations white individuals created and what if African Americans did them. It just showed the infinity insane ways which white privilege is still around. The article my Angela Davis just was a different perspective on the prison system because it was something she was at one point part of and due to that gave the female perceptive of it. It also created my awareness for the horrendous conditions which women face within prisons…

They control what happens to the defendant. If a prosecutor is able to control what happens to the defendant then the prosecutor has too much power. According to Angela Davis article, “Unchecked power in the hand of prosecutors is as much a threat to our democracy as it is with any government official, if not more.” Davis is basically saying not checking a prosecutor’s act is as bad as if we do not check our government acts. The prosecutor could be doing an act of passion towards the defendant…

Angela Davis, a 1960’s political activist, once said, “Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.” When compared to prisons in other countries, America is failing severely behind in all pertinent categories: the amount of inmates incarcerated, the number of inmates that return because of lack of rehabilitation, and the racial stigma that follows the amount of black men in prison.…

mean having a great deal of physical strength. Madame C.J Walker, however, is a woman who embodies what it means to be strong in a non-physical aspect. She, along with many other influential women such as, Shirley Chisholm, Hattie McDaniel, and Angela Davis give women throughout the world a sense of strong female empowerment; especially African American women. Madame C.J. Walker once said, “I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the south. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From…

History of Cosmetology “ I Am a Woman who came from cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the wash tub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I was promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair and goods preparations…… I have built my own factory on my own ground.” This quote is from, Madam CJ Walker.This demonstrates she started from the bottom and made it up to the top where no one thought she could be. Cosmetology is the professional skin…