Joy James (1) (1958–)

Author of The Angela Y. Davis Reader

For other authors named Joy James, see the disambiguation page.

About the Author

Joy James is Presidential Professor of the Humanities at Williams College. Her many books include Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy; The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings, also published by SUNY Press; and Imprisoned show more Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion. show less

Works by Joy James

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The Angela Y. Davis Reader (1998) — Editor — 112 copies

The Black Feminist Reader (2000) 57 copies

Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture (1996) 45 copies

Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics (1999) 39 copies

Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals (1996) 36 copies

In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities (2023) 36 copies

The New Abolitionists: (Neo)slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings (2005) — Editor — 35 copies

Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion (Transformative Politics Series, ed. Joy James) (2003) 34 copies

Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy (2007) 28 copies

States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons (2000) 21 copies

Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons (2024) 20 copies

Spirit, Space and Survival: African American Women in (White) Academe (1993) 17 copies

New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)life of Erica Garner (2023) 13 copies

Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader (2013) 12 copies

The Problems of Resistance: Studies in Alternate Political Cultures (Radical Philosophy Today, V. 2) (2001) — Editor — 1 copy

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Our enemies in blue : police and power in America (2004) — Introduction, some editions — 191 copies, 1 review

Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle (2009) — Contributor — 73 copies

Men Doing Feminism (1998) — Contributor — 42 copies

Skin Deep: Women Writing on Color, Culture, and Identity (1994) — Contributor — 41 copies

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