Education
M.A. Fordham University, International Politics (1982)
Ph.D. Fordham University, Political Philosophy (1987)
Areas of Expertise
Political theory
Human rights
Antiblackness and genocide
Feminisms
Abolitionisms
Courses
PSCI 210 / AFR 210 / AMST 210 / INTR 210 / WGSS 210 SEM
Culture and Incarceration (not offered 2024/25)INTR 219 / AFR 217 / AMST 217 / LEAD 219 / PSCI 219 / WGSS 219 TUT
Women and Girls in (Inter)National Politics (not offered 2024/25)INTR 220 / AMST 201 / LEAD 220 / PSCI 221 / AFR 224 TUT
Cold War Intellectuals: Civil Rights, Writers and the CIA (not offered 2024/25)INTR 341 / AFR 340 / PHIL 341 / PSCI 373 SEM
Black Marxism: Political Theory and Anti-Colonialism (not offered 2024/25)Scholarship/Creative Work
Transcending the Talented Tenth
Resisting State Violence
Seeking the ‘Beloved Community’
Editor: The Angela Y. Davis Reader
Co-editor: The Black Feminist Reader
Anthologies on radical politics and abolitionism include:
The New Abolitionists
Imprisoned Intellectuals
Warfare in the American Homeland
About
Joy James is Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. She is the author of Resisting State Violence; Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics, Transcending the Talented Tenth and Seeking the Beloved Community. James has published numerous articles on: political theory, police, prison and slavery abolition; radicalizing feminisms; diasporic anti-black racism; and US politics; and writes on the Captive Maternal through the lens of “The Womb of Western Theory.” Creator of the digital Harriet Tubman Literary Circle at UT Austin https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/7828, James is editor of The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings; Imprisoned Intellectuals;Warfare in the American Homeland; The Angela Y. Davis Reader; and co-editor of the Black Feminist Reader. James’s most recent books include: In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love and New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the Afterlife of Erica Garner.