Will Davis
Will Davis
movement quests steps
No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
color people prison
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
people criticize decent
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
country cities southern
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
people youth attempting
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
racism should has-beens
We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.
essentials heroic individual
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals
mean thinking class
Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
african-american modern-woman laurels
But at the same time you can't...
firsts problem social
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
philosophy thinking study
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
thinking rights people
I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.
attitude struggle thinking
I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes.
struggle goal way
I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way.