Joy James

Joy James (born September 27, 1958) is an American political philosopher, academic and author.[1] She holds the Ebenezer Fitch Professorship of Humanities at Williams College. She was a Senior Research Fellow at the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin where she developed the Harriet Tubman Digital Repository.[2] Her current research focuses on "The Algorithm of Anti-Racism,"[3] incarceration, and rebellion against police violence by captive maternals.[4]

Joy James
Born (1958-09-27) September 27, 1958
Alma materSt. Mary's University, Texas (BA)
Fordham University (MA)
Fordham University (PhD) post doctorate M.A. from Union Theological Seminary (New York City)
OccupationUniversity professor
EmployerWilliams College
Known forPolitical philosophy, African American studies, feminist and critical race theory.

Career

During a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Santa Cruz, James worked closely with Angela Davis, who was on the faculty and edited the Angela Y. Davis Reader.[5] Joy James has held positions as a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1990-96); as associate professor for the department of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder (1997-2000), where she also served as the director at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (1998); as distinguished visiting scholar at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University (1999-2000), and as professor of Africana studies at Brown University (2000-2005). In 2005 she joined the faculty at Williams College.[6] Joy James has worked with Black feminist academics to form the Black Internationalists Unions as a form of abolitionism that fights anti-black regimes.[7]

Works
  • James, Joy. "Airbrushing Revolution for the Sake of Abolition." Black Perspective. July 20, 2020.
  • James, Joy. "Presidential Powers and Captive Maternals: Sally, Michelle, and Deborah." APABlog, May 6, 2020.
  • James, Joy. “Killmonger’s Captive Maternal Is M.I.A: Black Panther’s Family Drama, Imperial Masters and Portraits of Freedom” in Reading Wakanda: Black Radical Imaginations with Hollywood Fantasies. Southern California Library. May 1, 2019.
  • James. Joy. “DO SOMETHING ETHICAL: Critical Thinking, Theorizing, and Political Will,”pp. 183-193. George Yancy,ed. Educating for critical consciousness. New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2019.
  • James, Joy. The Womb of Western theory: trauma, time theft, and the captive maternal. Carceral Notebooks. Challenging the punitive society. v12, 2016.
  • James, Joy, Silvia Federici, Kelly Fritsch, Clare O'Connor, and A K. Thompson. Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle. Edinburgh: AK Press, 2016.
  • James, Joy. Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader. : State Univ Of New York Pr, 2014.
  • James, Joy. 2007. Warfare in the American homeland: policing and prison in a penal democracy. Duke University Press.
  • James, Joy. The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 2005.
  • James, Joy. Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
  • James, Joy. 2003. High-Tech lynching and low-profile rapes. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
  • James, Joy. States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
  • James, Joy. Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
  • Davis, Angela Y., and Joy James. 1998. The Angela Y. Davis reader. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • James, Joy. Transcending the Talented Tenth: Race Leaders and American Intellectualism. New York: Routledge, 1997.
  • James, Joy. 1996. Resisting state violence: radicalism, gender, and race in U.S. culture. Minneapolis, Minn: University of Minnesota Press.
  • James, Joy. Spirit, space & survival: African American women in (white) academe. New York: Routledge, 1993.

References
  1. Joy James: Writing and Works, Williams College.
  2. Joy James, Williams College
  3. Joy James - The Algorithm of Anti-Racism The Action Network, July 30, 2020
  4. Dr. Joy James Lecture: "We Welcome Their Hatred" The Ohio State University, November 7, 2019.
  5. Visiting Woodson professors bring diverse perspectives. UVA Today, May 4, 2010.
  6. Joy A. James, Distinguished Professor of Africana Studies, Joins Williams Faculty., Sept. 14, 2005.
  7. Black Internationalists Unions, June 2020.
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