Father, August 1966,
awarding commendations to troops
“shipping off” to Vietnam.
Dr. Joy James, M.A., Ph.D.
"Until the Next (Up)Rising"
Wednesday 14 April 2021 ~ 10:30-11:30am Pacific
with ASL interpretation
Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities
Professor of the Humanities and professor of political science.
James is author of: Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics; Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals; Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race in U.S. Culture. Her edited books include: Warfare in the American Homeland; The New Abolitionists: (Neo) Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings; Imprisoned Intellectuals; States of Confinement; The Black Feminist Reader (co-edited with TD Sharpley-Whiting); and The Angela Y. Davis Reader. James is completing a book on the prosecution of 20th-century interracial rape cases, tentatively titled “Memory, Shame & Rage.” She has contributed articles and book chapters to journals and anthologies addressing feminist and critical race theory, democracy, and social justice.
James is a senior research fellow at the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, where she is co-curator of digital repositories for the Warfield Center and the Harriet Tubman Literary Circle, an educational nonprofit organization.
She is the recipient of grants, fellowships or awards from: the Fletcher Foundation; the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities; the Rockefeller Foundation; the Bellagio Fellowship; the Aaron Diamond Foundation/Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; the Ford Foundation; and the Gustavus Myers Human Rights Award.
Writings and works include: Captive Maternals; Electoral and Presidential politics; Political Theory; Police and Prison Abolitionism; Radicalising Feminisms; Literary Theory; Diasporic Anti-Black Racism; Political Imprisonment and so much more.
For examples of articles to read, see:
a co-authored piece and an interview on violence, the academy and the Captive Maternal
“States of Security, Democracy’s Sanctuary, and Captive Maternals in Brazil and the United States,” Souls. Joy James & Jaime Amparo Alves 201