Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader

Product Description


Selected essays on radical social change.




Review


“…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


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 Intellectuals: America’s Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion.