Charting the rich history and current configuration of black feminism, a collection of insightful essays on the subject focuses on personalities such as Eda B. Wells, Ella Baker, Angela Davis, and Assata Shakur to reveal how black women have moved along the cause of equal rights and liberation.

Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics

Politics & Social Sciences

James, Joy

Women's Studies

St Martins Pr

In Transcending the Talented Tenth, Joy James provocatively examines African American intellectual responses to racism and the role of elitism, sexism and anti-radicalism in black leadership politics throughout history. She begins with Du Bois' construction of "the Talented Tenth" as an elite leadership of race managers and takes us through the lives and work of radical women in the anti-lynching crusades, the civil rights and black liberation movements, as well as explores the contemporary struggles among black elites in academe.

Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals

History

Africa

Routledge

In Transcending the Talented Tenth, Joy James provocatively examines African American intellectual responses to racism and the role of elitism, sexism and anti-radicalism in black leadership politics throughout history. She begins with Du Bois' construction of "the Talented Tenth" as an elite leadership of race managers and takes us through the lives and work of radical women in the anti-lynching crusades, the civil rights and black liberation movements, as well as explores the contemporary struggles among black elites in academe.

Transcending the Talented Tenth

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

The Black Feminist Reader

Organized into two parts, "Literary Theory" and "Social and Political Theory," this Reader explores issues of community, identity, justice, and the marginalization of African American and Caribbean women in literature, society, and political movements.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Wiley/Blackwell

The Captive Maternal: Anti-Fascists in Search of the Beloved

Social Sciences

Pluto Press

As the political climate of the United States moves rightward, effective and visionary voices from the left become both rarer and more essential. In this volume, the author provides such a voice. Taking the convergence of race, gender and class as fundamental trajectories, the author offers an account of a world in which the United States functions as the political-police centre. At its core, the work is about the many ways the current structure of American government and society is inimical to human rights. The author examines the prevalence of racist violence in US politics, making connections between seemingly disparate themes and events, and linking global and US domestic politics. In the systematic nature of state violence, James sees a possibility of hope in the building of coalitions across race, class, gender and national divides. She argues that the very commonality that makes the system seem so overpowering can serve as the basis for resistance - that the elements that hold together a web of oppression and misuse of power also mark its vulnerabilities, especially when confronted with an equally systematic resistance. The author offers solutions for the dilemmas facing progressive politics and the individuals who work to achieve social justice. This is a guidebook for those who want to understand that forces that hinder social change, and to effectively move beyond them.

Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture

Univ of Minnesota Pr

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon (Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies)

Philosophy

Bloomsbury Academic

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.

Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader (Philosophy and Race)

State University of New York Press

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