Abstract
This paper presents some reflections of the research “Driven by passion”: gender, race and class in the Angela Davis criminal process that aims to investigate a case of subjectivity production of a female offender by the criminal justice system. This is an empirical work of a qualitative nature wich uses documentary analysis, with the purpose of thinking about the conditions of possibility of the emergence of the criminal discourse and the counter-discourse of the accused from the autobiographical writings of Angela Davis. Inspired by black feminist epistemology, I propose the strategy of the single case study to excavate the criminal process from the author's lenses, and reveal the disputes of meaning around the criminal narrative and subjectivity of the people involved. In the end, I stitch three events of her biography, in which Angela, when masking, unmasks the power.
Keywords:
Criminology; Prison; Black feminism; Archive; Angela Davis