BACK COVER James/Resisting State Violence

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Racial Politics/Women’s Studies

“Joy James is among the most thought-provoking, progressive intellectuals in America today. Resisting State Violence points us toward a transformative cultural and political analysis, advancing the struggle for social justice in American society.” Manning Marable, Columbia University

“Joy James . . . takes us on an important odyssey from the U.S. to Panama to Cuba and back again. [She] demands we resist state violence and gives us hope that we can do so by building multiracial international coalitions. Read her book to see her reasoned and impassioned arguments.” Zillah R. Eisenstein, author of The Color of Gender: Reimaging Democracy

“Joy James gets us to converse about the Central Park jogger rape trial in the same breath as we sort out the complex politics of international human rights feminism. There’s nothing ‘black-and-white’ about James’s activist theorizing.” Cynthia Enloe, author of The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War

As the political climate of the United States moves rightward, effective and visionary voices from the left become both rarer and more essential. Here, scholar-activist Joy James provides such a voice. Taking the convergence of race, gender, and class as fundamental trajectories, James puts forth a stimulating and iconoclastic account of a world in which the United States functions as the political-police center. In offering concrete solutions for the dilemmas facing progressive politics, Resisting State Violence is a clear-sighted and uncompromising guidebook for those who work to achieve social justice.

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Joy James teaches in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals.
Angela Y. Davis is a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of Women, Race, and Class and Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday.

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Resisting State Violence
Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture
Joy James
Foreword by Angela Y. Davis