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«Non intendevo scrivere questo libro. Un'autobiografia, alla mia età, mi sembrava presuntuosa». Ma questa ragazza nera cresciuta nella provincia americana, studiosa di filosofia, allieva di Adorno e di Marcuse, militante comunista e vicina alle Pantere Nere, attiva nelle battaglie contro il razzismo e contro il sistema «militare- industriale carcerario» americano, a poco più di vent'anni era già una stella polare per i movimenti in favore dei diritti civili.

Kindred Creation is a call and response to dream and design better worlds rooted in African lifeways: a path to Black freedom, a love letter to Black futures, and a blueprint to intergenerational Black joy and dignity—all (and always) on Black terms. Author, organizer, and designer Aida Mariam Davis explores the historical and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism, making explicit the ways that extraction, oppression, and enslavement serve the goals of empire—not least by severing ancestral connections and disrupting profound and ancient relationships to self, nature, and community.

The official story is that the United States has no political prisoners. The reality is that there are hundreds of people rounded up, placed behind bars, and kept there for inordinately long sentences because of their political beliefs and activities. A project of abolitionist Josh Davidson and political prisoner Eric King, this book is filled with the experience and wisdom of over thirty current and former North American political prisoners.