Seeking the Beloved Community
(May 2013)
A Feminist Race Reader Joy James - Author Beverly Guy-Sheftall - Foreword by
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 imprisonmen...(Read More)
The New Abolitionists
(July 2005)
(Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings Joy James - Edited and with an introduction by
Writings by twentieth-century imprisoned authors examining confinement, enslavement, and political organizing in prison.
“If you think modern slavery in the United States is a thing of the past, then The New Abolitionists ought to be mandatory reading. Joy James has done an incredible service by bringing together key writings by prison intellectuals over the past half century. The pieces she selected are...(Read More)