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...

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...

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...

Why have so many radical thinkers advocated for the abolition of prisons and punishment? And why have their ideas been so difficult to popularize or garner the political will for change? This book outlines several different approaches to penal abolitionism and showcases their calls for the ending of legal coercion, domination, and repression.This exciting and innovative edited collection shows how abolitionist ideas have continued topicality and relevance in the present day and how...

"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...

Inside one of the most daring and provocative Black organizations in Brazil of the last two decades, from the perspective of its founders and militants.Rise Up or Die! describes the origins, main concepts, distinct phases, and visions of the future of one of the most innovative, daring, and militant Black organizations in Brazil. Firmly rooted in that country’s long tradition of resistance and rebellion against a nation that depends on the continued hyper-...

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...

'A powerful – even startling – book that challenges the shibboleths of 'white' anarchism'. Its analysis of police violence and the threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of the 1970s. Perhaps more so' - Peter James Hudson, Black Agenda ReportAnarchism and the Black Revolution first connected Black radical thought to anarchist theory in 1979. Now amidst a rising tide of Black political organizing, this foundational classic written by a key f...

In this collection of five erotic short stories, Joy C. James imagines five scenarios of a young, beautiful woman being seduced into becoming erotically obsessed with someone they absolutely shouldn't - their beautiful female professors. They succumb to their desires, leading to erotic scenes of deviant pleasure.In 'Professor's Punishment', college professor Jessica Savoy is used to running a tight ship in her class. But college freshman Celia Sinclair has caused her class trouble ...

“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...