In 1974 Angela Davis published her autobiography, commenting:
I was not anxious to write this book. Writing an autobiography at my age seemed presumptuous. Moreover, I felt that to write about my life, what I did, what I thought and what happened to me would require a posture of difference, an assumption that I was unlike other women–other Black women–and therefore needed to explain myself. I felt that such a book might end up obscuring the most essential fact: the forces that have made my life what it is are the very same forces that have shaped and misshaped the lives of millions of my people.
The book tells the story of Davis’ life as a fugitive and her eventual arrest, but more importantly it is an analysis of what Davis came to consider the “prison-industrial complex” and its racial bias…
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