Wellek Library Lectures Bibliographic Database entry for Angela Davis

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Wellek Library Lectures Bibliographic Database entry for Angela Davis

2018

A bibliographic database containing Angela Davis's publications. The Wellek Library Lecture Bibliographic Collection is part of the CTA Zotero Bibliographic Database. This database allows visitors to gain access to bibliographic content connected to both the Critical Theory Archive at UC Irvine and ICCTP at UC Berkeley. The reference libraries housed within each identify critical resources for the field on various topics. Its goal is to contribute to international efforts to develop convenient, integrated discovery points for access to scholarly collections. These open-source bibliographic databases also serve as an essential tool for the curricular development of critical theory within a global frame. The bibliographies were compiled by UC Irvine research librarians and updated by UC Irvine graduate student researcher Jessica Ziegenfuss.

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Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-

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Activist, author, and professor, Angela Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on January 26, 1944, the daughter of two teachers. Active at an early age in the Black Panthers and the Communist Party, Davis also formed an interracial study group and volunteered for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee while still in high school. At fifteen, after earning a scholarship, Davis traveled to New York to complete high school. In 1960, Davis traveled to Germany to study for two years, and then ...

University of California, Irvine. Wellek Library lectures at the University of California, Irvine

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Since 1981, the Critical Theory Institute has sponsored an annual lecture series, named in honor of René Wellek (Yale University), whose library of works in critical theory is housed in Langson Library at the University of California, Irvine. Each year, we have invited an internationally distinguished critical theorist to visit the campus to deliver a series of three lectures in which he or she develops his or her critical position and relates it to the contemporary theoretical scene. Each se...