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b'Lorgia Garc\\xeda Pe\\xf1a, Angela Y. Davis and Chandra Talpade Mohanty discuss freedom making in the academy for women scholars of color.\\n\\n***Please note: This discussion was recorded on May 25, 2022. We are releasing it now because the discussion remains highly relevant and valuable.***\\n\\nJoin us for the launch of a Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color, a new book by Latinx Studies scholar Lorgia Garc\\xeda Pe\\xf1a in conversation with Angela Y. Davis and Chandra Talpade Mohanty.\\n\\nWeaving personal narrative with political analysis, Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Much like other women scholars of color, Lorgia Garc\\xeda Pe\\xf1a has struggled against the colonizing, racializing, classist, and unequal structures that perpetuate systemic violence within universities.\\n\\nAngela Y. Davis regards Community as Rebellion as \\u201ca life-saving and life-affirming text, it offers us the trenchant analysis and fearless strategy radical scholar-activists have long needed.\\u201d\\n\\nYou can order a copy of Community as Rebellion here:\\nhttps://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1870-community-as-rebellion\\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\nSpeakers:\\n\\nLorgia Garc\\xeda Pe\\xf1a is the author of Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color and is a first generation Latinx Studies scholar. Dr. Garc\\xeda Pe\\xf1a is the Mellon Associate Professor of Race, Colonialism and Diaspora Studies at Tufts University and a Casey Foundation 2021 Freedom Scholar. She studies global Blackness, colonialism, migration and diaspora with a special focus on Black Latinidad. Dr. Garc\\xeda Pe\\xf1a is the co-founder of Freedom University Georgia and of Archives of Justice (Milan-Boston).\\n\\nAngela Y. Davis is Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. An activist, writer, and lecturer, her work focuses on prisons, police, abolition, and the related intersections of race, gender, and class. She is the author of many books, from Angela Davis: An Autobiography (now available in a new edition from Haymarket Books) to Freedom Is a Constant Struggle.\\n\\nChandra Talpade Mohanty is a feminist scholar-activist and educator in the women\\u2019s and gender studies department at Syracuse University. Chandra\\u2019s activism, scholarship, and teaching focus on transnational feminist theory, anticapitalist feminist praxis, antiracist education, and the politics of knowledge. She is author of Freedom Feminist Warriors, Feminism without Borders and coeditor of Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures; Feminism and War and Sage Handbook of Identities.\\n\\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/A38JKBBK2RU\\n\\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\\n\\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks'