Blues Legacies And Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey

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In this book Angela Davies provides the historical, social and political contexts with which to reinterpret the lyrics and performances of Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday.'

Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, includingWomen, Race, and ClassandAre Prisons Obsolete?She is the subject of the acclaimed documentaryFree Angela and All Political Prisonersand is distinguished professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.