- Lived:
- Born 1944, Birmingham, Alabama · lives and teaches in the United States, professor emerita at UC Santa Cruz
- Tradition:
- Critical theory; Black radical thought; abolitionist feminism
- The Big Idea:
- Race, class, and gender are not three separate problems but one interlocking system — and the prison is where that system hides its failures, which is why real freedom means replacing the cage, not repainting it.
- In their words:
- "Freedom is a constant struggle."
- If you remember one thing:
- A child of a bombed Black neighborhood studied freedom with the Frankfurt School, faced the gas chamber, was acquitted — and spent the next half-century arguing that a society is judged by what it builds, not by whom it locks up.