Angela Davis speaking behind a four-sided bulletproof glass shield at Madison Square Garden, 29 June 1972.

“Racism is integrally linked to capitalism. And I think it’s a mistake to assume that we can combat racism by leaving capitalism in place. As Cedric Robinson pointed out in his book Black Marxism, capitalism is racial capitalism. And, of course, to just say for a moment, that Marx pointed out that what he called primitive accumulation, capital doesn’t just appear from nowhere. The original capital was provided by the labor of slaves. The Industrial Revolution, which pivoted around the production of capital, was enabled by slave labor in the U.S. So, I am convinced that the ultimate eradication of racism is going to require us to move toward a more socialist organization of our economies, of our other institutions. I think we have a long way to go before we can begin to talk about an economic system that is not based on exploitation and on the super-exploitation of Black people, Latinx people and other racialized populations.”

— Angela Davis, interview with Democracy Now! (June 12, 2020)

• “Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights” in Women, Race and Class, 1981
• “Race and Criminalization; Black Americans and the Punishment Industry” in The House that Race Built, ed. Wahneema Lubiano, 1997
• “Political Prisoners, Prisons and Black Liberation”, originally from If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance, ed. Angela Davis & Betty Aptheker, 1971
• “Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist” in Women, Race and Class, 1981
• “I Used to be Your Sweet Mama: Ideology, Sexuality and Domesticity” in Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, 1999
• “From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison: Frederick Douglass and the Convict Lease System” in The Angela Y. Davis Reader, ed. Joy James, 1998
• Angela Davis: An Autobiography, 1974 [reprinted in 1988]
• “Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition” in The Angela Y. Davis Reader, ed. Joy James, 1998
• “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves” in The Massachusetts Review , 1972
• “Globalism and the Prison-Industrial Complex: An Interview with Angela Davis”, conducted by Avery F. Gordon, 1999
• “Class and Race in the Early Women’s Rights Campaign” in Women, Race and Class, 1981
• Are Prisons Obsolete, 2003
• Alternatively, all of this can be found in my Angela Davis dropbox