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Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Series Editor Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1 "Sweet Home Alabama" -- 2 Sallye Davis's Red-Diaper Babies -- 3 Student Assimilationists and Rebels -- 4 From "Bombingham" to the Big Apple -- 5 Traumatic Awakenings in Devastated Children -- Part II -- 6 Undergrad -- 7 Marcuse's "Most Famous Student" -- 8 1967 Entry Points -- 9 Philosophy Professor and Communist Target -- Part III -- 10 Not Your Mother's CPUSA: The Che-Lumumba Club -- 11 Doppelganger Panther Women -- 12 Queering Radicalism: On Tour with Oakland Panthers and Jean Genet -- 13 Crucibles -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Imprint.

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 movements, as well as explores the contemporary struggles among black elites in academe

Cover -- Half-Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Introduction -- PART I EXECUTIONS -- 1.Testimony -- 2. ". .. Give Me Death": Capital Punishment and the Limits of American Citizenship -- 3. Sentencing Children to Death -- 4. The Ordeal of Mumia Abu-Jamal -- PART II BLACKS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE -- 5. Black Radicalism and an Economy of Incarceration -- 6. From the Convict Lease System to the Super-Max Prison -- 7. Young Black Americans and the Criminal Justice System -- 8. The New Black Leadership: Gang-Related? -- 9. Black Women and Gangs -- PART III GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND CONFINEMENT -- 10. Programming and Health Care Accessibility for Incarcerated Women -- 11. Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Studies of Incarceration -- 12. Imprisoned Native Women and the Importance of Native Traditions -- 13. Military Prostitution in Asia and the United States -- 14. HIV, AIDS, and Rape in Texas Prisons -- 15. Ritual Killings: Antigay Violence and Reasonable Justice -- PART IV POLICING -- 16. All the Brother Wanted Was a Ride: Lynching and Police Powers in Texas -- 17. Surplus Value: The Political Economy of Prisons and Policing -- 18. The Militarization of the Police in the United States -- 19. State Violence, Asian Immigrants, and the "Underclass -- 20. The INS and the Criminalization of Immigrant Workers -- 21. The New Surveillance -- PART V POLITICAL REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE -- 22. The Grand Jury: A Tool to Repress and Jail Activists -- 23. At the Constitution's Edge: Arab Americans and Civil Liberties -- 24. Political Incarceration -- 25. It's Time to Bring Our Political Prisoners Home -- 26. Earth First! and the FBI -- Contributors -- Selected Bibliography of Cited Works -- Index -- 21. The New Surveillance.

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 James charts new territory by synthesizing theories of social movements with cultural and identity politics. She brings into the spotlight images of black female agency and intellectualism in radical and anti-radical political contexts. From a comparative look at Ida B. Wells, Ella Baker, Angela Davis, and Assata Shakur to analyses of the black woman in white cinema and the black man in feminist coalitions, she focuses attention on the invisible or the forgotten. James convincingly demonstrates how images of powerful women are either consigned to oblivion or transformed into icons robbed of intellectual power. Shadowboxing honors and analyzes the work of black activists and intellectuals and, along the way, redefines the sharp divide between intellectual work and political movements. A daringly original study, this book changes what it means to be American

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.

'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. Historically, US anti-black anima forged tropes of 'criminality' and 'incivility' that demonized blacks as unsuitable for full citizenship. Today, the new black candidates successfully deflect these tropes, in part, by redeploying them against non-elites, and anti-racist discourse and activism.