JOY JAMES Professor of Africana Studies, holds a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from Fordham University and a postdoctorate degree in religious ethics from the Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. Her work focuses on political and feminist theory, critical race theory, and incarceration.

Her publications include: Resisting State Violence: Gender, Race, and Radicalism in US Culture (Minnesota, 1996); Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals (Routledge, 1997); Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics (St. Martin's, 1999). Edited works include the coedited volume Spirit, Space and Survival: African American Women in (White) Academe (Routledge, 1993), which received the 1994 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book on Human Rights Award. Other edited volumes include: The Angela Y. Davis Reader (Blackwell, 1998); and, The Black Feminist Reader, co-edited with T. Denean Sharpley Whiting (Blackwell, 2000).

She has edited several anthologies on incarceration in the United States: States of Confinement: Policing, Detention and Prisons (St. Martin's, 2000, revised edition 2002); Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); and, The New Abolitionists: Prison Writing and NeoSlave Narratives (SUNY Press, 2004).

James has received research grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NY Public Library) and the Rockefeller Bellagio Center (Italy); she works with various human rights organizations.

Her courses at Brown include "Black Feminist Thought"; "The Black Panthers"; "Women in the Civil Rights Movement"; "Gender, the State, and Violence"; and "Race, Culture and Incarceration." She is currently researching the praxes of women in the civil rights movement. She is active in The Tubman Literary Circle and various human rights groups for political prisoners.

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1. Conferences 2002
2. Social Justice Journal
3. Anthology: Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life Liberation and Rebellion
4. Anthology WebSite: Interviews with former and current political prisoners