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Seeking the beloved community : a feminist race reader, Joy James

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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{u2014}those advocating for the radical steps necessary to acknowledge and remedy structural injustice and violence, rather than merely reforming those existing structures--from publisher's website
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource
Contents
  • Feminist race theory
  • Teaching theory, talking community
  • Politicizing the spirit : Toni Morrison
  • Black feminism in liberation limbos
  • Resting in gardens, battling in deserts : Black women's activism
  • Radicalizing Black feminism
  • Angela Y. Davis
  • liberation praxis
  • Assata Shakur and Black female agency
  • Democracy and captivity
  • Black suffering in search of the "beloved community"
  • American prison notebooks
  • Violations
  • War, dissent & social justice
  • Academia, activism, and imprisoned intellectuals
  • Activist scholars or radical subjects?
  • Campaigns against blackness
  • Sovereign kinship and the president elect
  • The dead zone
  • Racism, genocide and resistance
  • All power to the people! : Arendt's communicative power in a racial democracy
Isbn
9781438446349
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Label
Seeking the beloved community : a feminist race reader
Title
Seeking the beloved community
Title remainder
a feminist race reader
Statement of responsibility
Joy James
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
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{u2014}those advocating for the radical steps necessary to acknowledge and remedy structural injustice and violence, rather than merely reforming those existing structures--from publisher's website
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http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1958-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
James, Joy
Dewey number
305.420973
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Index
index present
LC call number
HQ1197
LC item number
.J36 2013eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
SUNY series, philosophy and race
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Feminism
  • Womanism
  • African American women
  • African American women
  • Imprisonment
  • Radicalism
  • United States
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • African American women
  • African American women
  • Feminism
  • Imprisonment
  • Politics and government
  • Radicalism
  • Womanism
  • United States
  • Feminism
  • Feministisk teori
  • Etnicitet
  • Politisk verksamhet
  • Feminism
  • Feminist theory
  • Ethnicity
  • Political activities
  • Afro-amerikanska kvinnor
  • Intellektuellt liv
  • Politiskt deltagande
  • Feminism
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Seeking the beloved community : a feminist race reader, Joy James
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unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
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  • cr
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rdacarrier
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multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
Feminist race theory -- Teaching theory, talking community -- Politicizing the spirit : Toni Morrison -- Black feminism in liberation limbos -- Resting in gardens, battling in deserts : Black women's activism -- Radicalizing Black feminism -- Angela Y. Davis -- liberation praxis -- Assata Shakur and Black female agency -- Democracy and captivity -- Black suffering in search of the "beloved community" -- American prison notebooks -- Violations -- War, dissent & social justice -- Academia, activism, and imprisoned intellectuals -- Activist scholars or radical subjects? -- Campaigns against blackness -- Sovereign kinship and the president elect -- The dead zone -- Racism, genocide and resistance -- All power to the people! : Arendt's communicative power in a racial democracy
Control code
846494733
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource
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unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781438446349
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unknown
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computer
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rdamedia
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  • c
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not applicable
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unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)846494733
Label
Seeking the beloved community : a feminist race reader, Joy James
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Feminist race theory -- Teaching theory, talking community -- Politicizing the spirit : Toni Morrison -- Black feminism in liberation limbos -- Resting in gardens, battling in deserts : Black women's activism -- Radicalizing Black feminism -- Angela Y. Davis -- liberation praxis -- Assata Shakur and Black female agency -- Democracy and captivity -- Black suffering in search of the "beloved community" -- American prison notebooks -- Violations -- War, dissent & social justice -- Academia, activism, and imprisoned intellectuals -- Activist scholars or radical subjects? -- Campaigns against blackness -- Sovereign kinship and the president elect -- The dead zone -- Racism, genocide and resistance -- All power to the people! : Arendt's communicative power in a racial democracy
Control code
846494733
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781438446349
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)846494733

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