Joy James 
Seeking the Beloved Community [EPUB ebook] 
A Feminist Race Reader

Foreword by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Acknowledgments

Part I. Feminist Race Theory

1. Teaching Theory, Talking Community
2. Politicizing the Spirit: Toni Morrison
3. Black Feminism in Liberation Limbos
4. Resting in Gardens, Battling in Deserts: Black Women’s Activism
5. Radicalizing Black Feminism
6. Angela Y. Davis: Liberation Praxis
7. Assata Shakur and Black Female Agency

Part II. Democracy and Captivity

8. Democracy and Captivity
9. Black Suffering in Search of the ‘Beloved Community’
10. American Prison Notebooks
11. Violations
12. War, Dissent, and Social Justice
13. Academia, Activism, and Imprisoned Intellectuals

Part III. Sovereign Political Subjects

14. Activist Scholars or Radical Subjects?
15. Campaigns Against Blackness
16. Sovereign Kinship and the President Elect
17. The Dead Zone
18. Racism, Genocide, and Resistance
19. ‘All Power to the People!’: Arendt’s Communicative Power in Racial Democracy

Joy James is the John B. and John T. Mc Coy Presidential Professor of Humanities and College Professor in Political Science at Williams College. She is the author of Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture, and her edited works on incarceration and human rights include States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons and Imprisoned Intellectuals: America’s Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion.