Angela Y Davis Award 2024 goes to Giannina Braschi.
The Angela Davis Prize
Giannina Braschi Wins Lifetime Achievement Prize
2024 Angela Y. Davis Award from American Studies Association
“When the economical becomes ecumenical, less will open the frontiers to more.” –Giannina Braschi, Putinoika
FlowerSong Press announces that Giannina Braschi is the recipient of the 2024 Angela Y Davis Award from the American Studies Association (ASA), the oldest and largest scholarly organization dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of U.S. cultures and histories.
Poet, philosopher, and activist Giannina Braschi is recognized for “the outstanding contribution (her) work represents to American Studies and indeed, to the world,” stated Mishuana Goeman, President of ASA. The Angela Y. Davis Award is named after the prominent black feminist philosopher, writer, and activist who has authored such books as Women, Race, and Class and Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire. Professor Davis was a critical voice in black freedom struggles and continues to organize against the prison-industrial complex.
What you call terrorism of any kind, I call the revenge of poetry. Giannina Braschi, Putinoika
Winner of the Angela Y Davis Award 2024
“In the spirit of Angela Y Davis’s dedication to social justice, Giannina Braschi has advanced public knowledge and activism through her research and unique talents as a public intellectual. She not only reminds us of our individual responsibility to be creative but of our collective creative power—through metaphors, speeches, and revolutionary artforms, but also through direct appeals to government and through public manifestations. Braschi has dedicated nearly 40 years to creating a body of writing that helps to educate the public on the structural inequities of her native Puerto Rico and American society at large. She writes of the human flow of mass migrations, mass incarceration, democracy, liberty, and creativity,” observed FlowerSong Press’s Editor-in-Chief Frederick Luis Aldama.
Braschi’s opus magnus Putinoika (published by FlowerSong Press on September 27, 2024) discusses the rise of frenzy, rage, and plague in the Putin and Trump era, with the aim of ending pollution, collusion, and delusion. Her prior books include Empire of Dreams, Yo-Yo Boing!, and United States of Banana. The Library of Congress calls her writing “cutting-edge, influential, and even revolutionary.” Her texts have been widely adapted and applied to theatre, chamber music, graphic novels, photography, artist books, short films, fashion, industrial design, and urban planning.
The American Studies Association Awards ceremony will take place in Baltimore on Thursday, November 14 at 6:00pm in the Key Ballroom of the Baltimore Hilton Inner Harbor.
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About the Angela Y Davis Prize
The Angela Y Davis Prize recognizes scholars who have applied or used their scholarship for the public good. Recipients of the award receive lifetime membership in the association. The prize winner will be announced at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association.
The award is named after Angela Y. Davis, prominent black feminist thinker, writer, activist, and prison abolitionist who has authored such books as Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete?, as well as Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire. Davis was a critical voice in black freedom struggles and continues to organize against the prison-industrial complex. She has held academic positions at the University of California, Los Angeles, San Francisco State University, and the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she retired.
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