Angela Davis is iconic as an international figure but few recognize the educational, political and ideological contexts that formed the public persona.Excavating layers of networks, activists, academics, polemicists, and funders across the ideological spectrum, Joy James studies the paradigms and platforms that leveraged Angela Davis into recognition as an activist and radical intellectual.Beginning in Alabama in 1944 with Davis's birthplace and ending in California in 1970 with a ...

In Transcending the Talented Tenth, Joy James provocatively examines African American intellectual responses to racism and the role of elitism, sexism and anti-radicalism in black leadership politics throughout history. She begins with Du Bois' construction of "the Talented Tenth" as an elite leadership of race managers and takes us through the lives and work of radical women in the anti-lynching crusades, the civil rights and black liberation movements, as well as explores the co...

"An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics."-Slavoj Žižek, author of Living in the End TimesKeywords for Radicals recognizes that language is both a weapon and terrain of struggle, and that all of us committed to changing our social and material reality, to making a world justice-rich and oppression-free, cannot drop words such as democracy,’ occupatio...

Joy James has a long, well regarded career marked by praise from author/activists including Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelly, Howard Zinn, Manning Marable and reviews in trade, academic, and popular press.This, her first book published by a trade publisher, is poised to break out and join with her academic/activist peers in reaching a broader audienceThis book was inspired by and is dedicated to Erica Garner–Eric Garner’s daughter–and will be embraced by Black Lives Matter ac...

Selected essays on radical social change.Written over the course of twenty years, the essays brought together here highlight and analyze tensions confronted by writers, scholars, activists, politicians, and political prisoners fighting racism and sexism. Focusing on the experiences of black women calling attention to and resisting social injustice, the astonishing scale of mass and politically driven imprisonment in the United States, and issues relating to governm...

Since 1997, the US Department of Defense has transferred more than $7.2bn in military equipment to law enforcement agencies. Furthermore, the DOD is legally required to make various equipment items available to local police and school police departments, from flashlights and sandbags to grenade launchers and armored vehicles. This militarization has, unsurprisingly, been shown to impact Black communities unjustly and is associated with increased killings by police. No wonder there have bee...

Prisons constitute one of the most controversial and contested sites in a democratic society. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, with over 2 million people in jails, prisons, and detention centers; with over three thousand on death row, it is also one of the few developed countries that continues to deploy the death penalty. International Human Rights Organizations such as Amnesty International have also noted the scores of political prisoners...

“Essential reading for those of us working in the university and inside institutions that help the state wage war ... While the conversations are informed by histories of Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous struggle, they unfold in unexpected ways and in the real time of our perilous and shifting grounds” Tiffany Lethabo King, author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native StudiesThis dynamic collection of conversations includes ref...

“A work of radical care and love, a study guide for the urgency of the moment” Dian Million, author of Therapeutic Nations“Guides us through confrontation with counterinsurgency in empire’s proxy wars, colonies, prisons and schools” Frances Madeson, author of Cooperative Village“An incendiary political and philosophical reflection” Ken Fero, radical filmmaker and convenor of The People’s Tribunal on Police...

Anna knows she shouldn't be speeding down this long stretch of empty road, but what could it hurt? That's just what she finds out when muscular and chiseled Officer Tyler pulls her over, ready to administer his own personal and sexy instructions on how to respect the Law. This story is a tight 4,000 words of handcuffs, spankings, and sex on the side of the road. Adults only.- Excerpt -He had had enough. With one hand, he reached in to unlock my door. With the other, he pull...

Angela Tuttle has always had a problem with sex. That's why she's in the office of Dr. Isaac Redwood, renowned expert on the subject. Angela isn't sure she can be cured, but the doctor thinks he has exactly what she needs - an intense prescription of sexual healing, with himself as the provider. This is a six thousand word short story featuring a sexy psychiatrist giving his patient exactly what she needs: a good, long, healing fuck. For adult audiences only.-EXCERPT-“Let m...

Despite being only a new college student, sexy Selena Matthews seems to think she owns the school. The beautiful and icy Professor Maria Smythe plans to disabuse her of that notion. Over the course of several intensely erotic days, Professor Smythe shows Selena that she doesn't want to be the Queen of the Campus - instead, she wants to show her full submission and lustful obedience towards her beautiful professor.This 4,200 word erotic short story features several erotic scenes fea...