Joy James
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joy James |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joy |
| FAMILY NAME | James |
| SIGNATURE | JAMES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Appalachian State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration
This book tells the story of mass Incarceration in America through the writers who experienced it first-hand. It begins at mid-century with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, whose insights about racism and the criminal justice system warned of what was to come. It takes off in the 1960s and 1970s with revolutionary writers like George Jackson, Assata Shakur, and Mumia Abu-Jamal, seeking liberation not just from prison but the oppressive s…
Musings on the Epicenter/Hypocenter Analytics & The Feminism of bell hooks
Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons
Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon
Angela Davis is iconic as an international figure but few recognize the educational, political and ideological contexts that formed the public persona. Excavating layers of networks, activists, academics, polemicists, and funders across the ideological spectrum, Joy James studies the paradigms and platforms that leveraged Angela Davis into recognition as an activist and radical intellectual. Beginning in Alabama in 1944 with Davis’s birthplace an…
Captive Maternals vs. Compradors: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Theorizing Captive Maternal Agency and Comprador Betrayals through the case of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and Philadelphia Judge Lucretia Clemmons, with a focus on the denial of civil and human rights within the US penal/legal system
Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons
Pandemic Panic Course Design: A Faculty Team Approach
Recreation Management faculty developed an alternative online experience in place of the internship in response to two conditions created by the pandemic: (a) uncertainty of students being able to obtain internships and (b) student safety. The vision was to have students build and practice problem solving skills, inspire innovation as well as be mentored by recreation professionals in the field. This brief provides an overview of the faculty team…
The Captive Maternal and Abolitionism
This keynote (article) examines political theory and organizing against anti-Blackness and police violence. It reflects on community, vulnerability and care, and political agency from the perspective of the “Captive Maternal”—a gender diverse or agender function of caretaking, protesting, movement and maroon-building and war resistance emanating from communities stalked by anti-Blackness and the legacy of 500 years of chattel slavery in the Ameri…
Faculty Cooperative Curricular Activities: Shared Learning Experiences + Faculty Collaboration = Engaged Learners
This article describes the Faculty Cooperative Curricular Activities (FCCA) model developed and implemented in the Recreation Management program at Appalachian State University. FCCA’s are experiential learning activities or assignments in two or more separate courses where the assignment is shared to build upon a common construct/concept. These mutual activities and assignments between courses connect constructs and concepts to enhance student l…
Political Trauma
Afterword: Activist Scholars or Radical Subjects
A historical and critical analysis of park prescriptions
Park Prescription (PP) is a grassroots movement encouraging physicians to “prescribe” parks to patients, promoting healthy parks and people. However, little is known specifically about PP’s ability to increase participant health outcomes. While some enthusiastically see PPs as a form of delivering a medical treatment, others question the lack of evidence to support writing a nonmedical prescription. A critical analysis of the PP movement’s histor…
States of Security, Democracy's Sanctuary, and Captive Maternals in Brazil and the United States
How might we understand the current political formations that emerged from the election of Donald Trump in the United States and the parliamentary coup in Brazil? Despite the U.S. disavowal for human rights violations in foreign policies, the victory of explicitly anti-black, anti-female, anti-gay, anti-poor forces in both democracies seems to be part of the vociferous restructuring of global racial capitalism, apartheid enforced by law and polic…
The Quartet in the Political Persona of Ida B. Wells
Antilynching activism and advocacy are codified in Wells’s writings, particularly the 1892 pamphlet Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. Wells presented an astute political analysis of racial-sexual violence within US democracy that remains influential from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. A review of Wells’s advocacy for Afro-American autonomy and self-defense to counter racial terror and rape, and her critique of…
Cracking the Codes of Black Power Struggles: Hacking, Hacked, and Black Lives Matter
Ahmad Greene-Hayes: “Black Lives Matter” is one of the most recent iterations of the Black Liberation Movement, with an unapologetic Black queer feminist politic led by women-identified, queer, tra
Outlaw, Appiah, and Du Bois’s “The Conservation of Races”
The Profeminist Politics of W. E. B. Du Bois - 1 - with Respects to Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells Barnett
Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals
In Transcending the Talented Tenth, Joy James provocatively examines African American intellectual responses to racism and the role of elitism, sexism and anti-radicalism in black leadership politics throughout history. She begins with Du Bois' construction of "the Talented Tenth" as an elite leadership of race managers and takes us through the lives and work of radical women in the anti-lynching crusades, the civil rights and black liberation mo…
First Impressions: Exploring the Structure of Titles for Nonformal Public Interpretive Programs
Visitors considering attending an interpretive program open to the public at a zoo, historic site, park, or museum may have no more information available to them than the title of the program and its location and date. This research investigated how the structure of a program title helped or hindered people from inferring the topic of the program, whether it is for adults or children, level of formality, and interestingness. Ninety-six college st…
Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader
Afrarealism and the Black Matrix: Maroon Philosophy at Democracy's Border
(2013). Afrarealism and the Black Matrix. The Black Scholar: Vol. 43, The Role of Black Philosophy, pp. 124-131
Concerning Violence: Frantz Fanon's Rebel Intellectual in Search of a Black Cyborg
This examination of "Concerning Violence," the first chapter of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, reflects on the rebellion of the native intellectual against colonialism and racism. This essay argues that the possibilities of political transformation through struggles against imperialism and capitalism prefigure a revolutionary figure, that of the black cyborg rebel in search of freedom beyond "Third World" nation-state formation, predat…
Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture
Campaigns against 'Blackness: Criminality, Incivility, and Election to Executive Office
Campaigns against 'Blackness'' focuses on the 2008 Democratic presidential primary waged by Barack Obama and the 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial race run by Deval Patrick. It explores racial bias expressed against and by African-American males seeking high office. In these campaigns, the convergence of racial uplift and multicultural democracy manifests in mandates against blackness represented as criminality and political incivility. Historical…
The Dead Zone: Stumbling at the Crossroads of Party Politics, Genocide, and Postracial Racism
Examining the parameters of Africana thought with references to the 2008 presidential campaigns that led to the election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States, this essay explores the relationship of black elite leadership and black mass disenfranchisement. It identifies the intersection of these two formations as a "dead zone," that is, a void in practical and theoretical politics, one that reveals central evasions i…
Children's Role in Meaning Making Through Their Participation in an Environmental Education Program
The authors conducted an ethnography investigating children's lived experiences in a 3-day residential environmental education (EE) program with 20 gifted 4th- and 5th-grade students. The authors also conducted participant observation and a series of interviews before, during, and after the trip. After the authors conducted the interviews and collected other data, they conducted analyses that identified domains describing the children's lived exp…
Children's Role in Meaning Making Through Their Participation in an Environmental Education Program
The authors conducted an ethnography investigating children's lived experiences in a 3-day residential environmental education (EE) program with 20 gifted 4th- and 5th-grade students. The authors also conducted participant observation and a series of interviews before, during, and after the trip. After the authors conducted the interviews and collected other data, they conducted analyses that identified domains describing the children's lived exp…
A historical and critical analysis of park prescriptions
Park Prescription (PP) is a grassroots movement encouraging physicians to “prescribe” parks to patients, promoting healthy parks and people. However, little is known specifically about PP’s ability to increase participant health outcomes. While some enthusiastically see PPs as a form of delivering a medical treatment, others question the lack of evidence to support writing a nonmedical prescription. A critical analysis of the PP movement’s histor…
Afrarealism and the Black Matrix: Maroon Philosophy at Democracy's Border
(2013). Afrarealism and the Black Matrix. The Black Scholar: Vol. 43, The Role of Black Philosophy, pp. 124-131
States of Security, Democracy's Sanctuary, and Captive Maternals in Brazil and the United States
How might we understand the current political formations that emerged from the election of Donald Trump in the United States and the parliamentary coup in Brazil? Despite the U.S. disavowal for human rights violations in foreign policies, the victory of explicitly anti-black, anti-female, anti-gay, anti-poor forces in both democracies seems to be part of the vociferous restructuring of global racial capitalism, apartheid enforced by law and polic…
The Dead Zone: Stumbling at the Crossroads of Party Politics, Genocide, and Postracial Racism
Examining the parameters of Africana thought with references to the 2008 presidential campaigns that led to the election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States, this essay explores the relationship of black elite leadership and black mass disenfranchisement. It identifies the intersection of these two formations as a "dead zone," that is, a void in practical and theoretical politics, one that reveals central evasions i…
Black Revolutionary Icons and 'Neoslave' Narratives
Over the centuries that America enslaved Blacks, those men and women most determined to win freedom became fugitives, fleeing from the brutal captivity of slavery. Many of their descendants who fought the Black liberation struggle also became fugitives. These men and women refused to endure the captivity awaiting them in retaliation for their systematic effort to win freedom. But unlike runaway slaves, these men and women fought for a more expans…
Concerning Violence: Frantz Fanon's Rebel Intellectual in Search of a Black Cyborg
This examination of "Concerning Violence," the first chapter of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, reflects on the rebellion of the native intellectual against colonialism and racism. This essay argues that the possibilities of political transformation through struggles against imperialism and capitalism prefigure a revolutionary figure, that of the black cyborg rebel in search of freedom beyond "Third World" nation-state formation, predat…
Campaigns against 'Blackness: Criminality, Incivility, and Election to Executive Office
Campaigns against 'Blackness'' focuses on the 2008 Democratic presidential primary waged by Barack Obama and the 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial race run by Deval Patrick. It explores racial bias expressed against and by African-American males seeking high office. In these campaigns, the convergence of racial uplift and multicultural democracy manifests in mandates against blackness represented as criminality and political incivility. Historical…
American 'Prison Notebooks
Resting in Gardens, Battling in Deserts: Black Women's Activism
Radicalising feminism
Ella Baker, ‘Black Women's Work’ and Activist Intellectuals
(1994). Ella Baker, ‘Black Women's Work’ and Activist Intellectuals. The Black Scholar: Vol. 24, Black Popular Movements, pp. 8-15
Black Femmes Fatales and Sexual Abuse in Progressive “White” Cinema: Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa and The Crying Game
Research Article| September 01 1995 Black Femmes Fatales and Sexual Abuse in Progressive “White” Cinema: Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa and The Crying Game Joy James Joy James Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 32–48. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-12-3_36-32 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
US policy in Panama
Anita Hill: Martyr Heroism & Gender Abstractions
The Black Scholar Reader's Forum: Multiculturalism, Postmodernism and Racial Consciousness
(1994). The Black Scholar Reader's Forum: Multiculturalism, Postmodernism and Racial Consciousness. The Black Scholar: Vol. 24, Black Cultural History—1994, pp. 15-22
Ella Baker, ‘Black Women's Work’ and Activist Intellectuals
(1994). Ella Baker, ‘Black Women's Work’ and Activist Intellectuals. The Black Scholar: Vol. 24, Black Popular Movements, pp. 8-15
Politicizing the spirit: ‘American Africanisms’ and African ancestors in the essays of Toni Morrison
Black Femmes Fatales and Sexual Abuse in Progressive “White” Cinema: Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa and The Crying Game
Research Article| September 01 1995 Black Femmes Fatales and Sexual Abuse in Progressive “White” Cinema: Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa and The Crying Game Joy James Joy James Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 32–48. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-12-3_36-32 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals
In Transcending Talented Tenth, Joy James provocatively examines African American intellectual responses to racism and role of elitism, sexism and anti-radicalism in black leadership politics throughout history. She begins with Du Bois' construction of the Talented Tenth as an elite leadership of race managers and takes us through lives and work of radical women in anti-lynching crusades, civil rights and black liberation movements, as well as ex…
Spirit, Space & Survival: African American Women in (White) Academe
This text examines the dilemmas and contributions of African American women struggling with Eurocentric disciplines, students, faculty and administrators in predominantly white institutions. Weaving together spiritual and intellectual aspirations of African American women as a remedy to hostile and indifferent educational environments, this collection offers alternative approaches to learning, teaching and organization
Dialogue on Radicalism and the Left: Radicalism Today
Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life
Journal Article Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life. By William M. Banks. New York: Norton, 1996. xvi, 335 pp. $29.95 and Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals. By Joy James. New York: Routledge, 1997. xxii, 222 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-415-91762-X. Paper, $16.95 Get access David Levering Lewis David Levering Lewis Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works b…
Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics
Shadowboxing presents an explosive analysis of the history and practice of black feminisms, drawing upon political theory, history, and cultural studies in a sweepingly interdisciplinary work. Joy Jam
Resting in Gardens, Battling in Deserts: Black Women's Activism
Black Revolutionary Icons and 'Neoslave' Narratives
Over the centuries that America enslaved Blacks, those men and women most determined to win freedom became fugitives, fleeing from the brutal captivity of slavery. Many of their descendants who fought the Black liberation struggle also became fugitives. These men and women refused to endure the captivity awaiting them in retaliation for their systematic effort to win freedom. But unlike runaway slaves, these men and women fought for a more expans…
Radicalising feminism
States of Confinement
The Dysfunctional and the Disappearing: Democracy, Race and Imprisonment
Other Kinds of Dreams: Black Women's Organizations and the Politics of Transformation
Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion
Prisons constitute one of the most controversial and contested sites in a democratic society. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, with over 2 million people in jails, prisons, and detention centers; with over three thousand on death row, it is also one of the few developed countries that continues to deploy the death penalty. International Human Rights Organizations such as Amnesty International have …
Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion
Contributors include Mumia Abu-Jamal, Sundiata Acoli, Rev. Daniel Berrigan, S.J., Dhoruba bin Wahad, Rita Bo Brown, Marilyn Buck, Safiya Bukhari, Angela Y. Davis, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Elizam Escobar, Linda Evans, George Jackson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Raymond Luc Levasseur, Jalil Muntaqim, Michele Naar-Obed, Huey P. Newton, Leonard Peltier, Susan Rosenberg, Assata Shakur, Mutulu Shakur, Jose Solis Jordan, Standing Deer, Laura Whitehorn and Ma…
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons
Introduction J.James PART I: EXECUTIONS Testimony: R.Meeropol 'Give Me Death': Capital Punishment and the Limits of American Citizenship L.Bernstein Sentencing Children to Death S.Hawkins The Ordeal of Mumia Abu-Jamal D.Williams PART II: BLACKS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE Black Radicalism and an Economy of Incarceration M.Marable From the Convict Lease System to the Supermax Prison A. Y.Davis Young Black Americans and the Criminal Justice System M.Mauer…
Imprisoned Intellectuals: War, Dissent, and Social Justice
Research Article| January 01 2003 Imprisoned Intellectuals: War, Dissent, and Social Justice Joy James Joy James Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (85): 74–81. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-85-74 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Joy James; Imprisoned Intellectuals: War, Dissent, and Social Justice. Radical History Review 1 January 2003; 200…
American 'Prison Notebooks
The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings
Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy
The United States has more than two million people locked away in federal, state, and local prisons. Although most of the U.S. population is non-Hispanic and white, the vast majority of the incarcerated—and policed—is not. In this compelling collection, scholars, activists, and current and former prisoners examine the sensibilities that enable a penal democracy to thrive. Some pieces are new to this volume; others are classic critiques of U.S. st…
Children's Role in Meaning Making Through Their Participation in an Environmental Education Program
The authors conducted an ethnography investigating children's lived experiences in a 3-day residential environmental education (EE) program with 20 gifted 4th- and 5th-grade students. The authors also conducted participant observation and a series of interviews before, during, and after the trip. After the authors conducted the interviews and collected other data, they conducted analyses that identified domains describing the children's lived exp…
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