Seeking The Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader (suny Series, Philosophy And Race)
by Joy James /
2013 / English / PDF
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Selected essays on radical social change.
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 imprisonment in
the United States, and issues relating to government and civic
powers in American democracy, Joy James gives voice to people and
ideas persistently left outside mainstream progressive
discourse—those advocating for the radical steps necessary to
acknowledge and remedy structural injustice and violence, rather
than merely reforming those existing structures.
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 imprisonment in
the United States, and issues relating to government and civic
powers in American democracy, Joy James gives voice to people and
ideas persistently left outside mainstream progressive
discourse—those advocating for the radical steps necessary to
acknowledge and remedy structural injustice and violence, rather
than merely reforming those existing structures.
“…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.
“…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.
A luta continua. The struggle continues.” —
from the Foreword by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
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
“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 ofConstructing the Nation: A Race and
Nationalism Reader
Constructing the Nation: A Race and
Nationalism Reader
