Description: Selected essays on radical social change.
Brief description: Joy James is the John B. and John T. McCoy Presidential Professor of Humanities and College Professor in Political Science at Williams College. She is the author of Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture, and her edited works on incarceration and human rights include States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons and Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion.
Review Quotes:
"...this Joy James reader is at its core a portrait of 'the making of a dissident voice' ... What we most desperately need in a world that fears and silences opposition--or worse--are revolutionaries who speak truth to power and beckon us to stand with them in solidarity. A luta continua. The struggle continues." -- from the Foreword by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
"These broad-ranging essays circle around the topic of building community under siege. Communities can be 'thorny ties, ' as Joy James notes, yet are vital for developing a critical consciousness on one's society. James also provides an astute analysis of the antirevolutionary trends in social theory today. Herein one will find the voice of a dissident humanist in full flower." -- Linda Martín Alcoff, coeditor of Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader