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academics who wrote autobiography
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Angela Davis
Angela Davis (born 1944)

human rights activist, philosopher, autobiographer, politician, women's rights activist, political prisoner, feminist, professor

  • University of California, San Diego, Humboldt University of Berlin

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Angela Davis--an autobiography
Women, culture & politics
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
We the Resistance
If They Come in the Morning
Abolition democracy
Disability Incarcerated Imprisonment And Disability In The United States And Canada
The Angela Y. Davis reader
Abolition. Feminism. Now
Mujeres, Raza Y Clase (Cuestiones De Antagonismo)
Cinde'Reader
The meaning of freedom
A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass
Art on the Frontline
Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia
The Prison Industrial Complex
Great Refusal
Una historia de la conciencia
Prinsetta
Materialien zur Rassenjustiz
Decolonial Ecology
Violence against women and the ongoing challenge to racism
Radical Thinkers
Lectures on liberation
Against Police Violence: Writers of Conscience Speak Out
Black Power Mixtape
Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
La revolució avui / Revolution today
Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah
Prisons and American History
This Believer's Truth
Abolition
Beyond the frame
The Meaning of Freedom And Other Difficult Dialogs
Angela Davis speaks
What If I Am A Woman? - Volume Two
A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States
Jørn Lund
Jørn Lund (born 1946)

linguist, professor, editor

  • Bagsværd Kostskole og Gymnasium

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Luigi Meneghello
Luigi Meneghello (1922-2007)

politician, translator, partisan

  • University of Padua

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Le carte
Quaggiù nella biosfera
La materia di Reading e altri reperti
Deliver us
Opere scelte
Jura
Bau-sète!
L' acqua di Malo
Promemoria
Leda e la schioppa
Le carte
Opere
I piccoli maestri
Libera nos a malo
I fiori italiani
Che fate, quel giovane?
Maredè, maredè--
The outlaws
Il dispatrio
Fiori italiani
Pomo pero
I piccoli maestri
Libera nos a malo
John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman (born 1941)

essayist, cultural critic

  • University of Pennsylvania, University of Oxford

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Nathan McCall
Nathan McCall (born 1955)

journalist, biographer

  • Norfolk State University

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Billy Adamsen
Billy Adamsen (born 1963)

researcher, spin doctor, director

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Jessica B. Harris
Jessica B. Harris (born 1948)

academic

  • New York University, Bryn Mawr College

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Julie Dachez
Julie Dachez (born 1985)

blogger, activist, researcher

  • University of Nantes

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