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Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture
Joy James
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Description for Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFJ; JFSJ; JFSL; JHMP; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
An incendiary critique of contemporary American society that also offers concrete solutions for the dilemmas facing progressive politics.
As the political climate of the United States moves rightward, effective and visionary voices from the left become both rarer and more essential. In Resisting State Violence, African American scholar-activist Joy James provides such a voice. Taking the convergence of race, gender, and class as fundamental trajectories, James offers a stimulating and iconoclastic account of a world in which the United States functions as the political-police center.
At its core, Resisting State Violence is about the many ways the current structure of American ... Read moreIn the systematic and ubiquitous nature of state violence, however, James sees a possibility of hope in the building of coalitions across race, class, gender, and national divides. She argues that the very commonality that makes the system seem so overpowering can serve as the basis for resistance-that the elements that hold together a web of oppression and misuse of power also mark its vulnerabilities, especially when confronted with an equally systematic resistance. James offers concrete solutions for the dilemmas facing progressive politics and the individuals who work to achieve social justice. Resisting State Violence is a clear-sighted and uncompromising guidebook for those who want to understand the forces that hinder social change, and to effectively move beyond them. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816628131
SKU
V9780816628131
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About Joy James
Joy James teaches in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is author of Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals (1996) and coeditor (with Ruth Farmer) of Spirit, Space, and Survival: African American Women in (White) Academe (1993).
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