Angela Yvonne Davis was born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama. She was born and raised during a time and place of great political a racial controversies. In 1960, Davis traveled abroad where she studied in Germany at the Frankfurt School, and attended the University of Paris. When Davis returned to the U.S., she enrolled at the University of California at San Diego, where she began pursuing her master's degree, and career as of professor of philosophy. She began intensely involved in the Southern California black community. She joined organizations such as the in the communist party and the Black Panthers. Her involvement in these radical groups expressed proudly that she was a revolutionary black communist that challenge capitalism. This caused Davis to be watched very closely by the
I had the pleasure of reading one of her speeches, Ethnic Studies: Global Meanings. This speech is included in Women, Politics, and Culture along with many of her other remarkable speeches. Davis emphasizes the importance of ethnic studies, and comments that it is “ a bridge-building process inviting us to identify with the struggles and accomplishments of oppressed people of color around the world.” (Davis, p. 186) She discusses various issues from Afro-American liberation movement to the Nicaraguan Revolution. I also believe that the study of ethnic studies is important. It gives one a sense of history and culture. It allows us to observe and understand “cultural demands of racially oppressed people in the United States” (Davis, p. 186) I also believe it helps us develop the critical
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