New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner - Paperback

by Joy James (Author)

Joy James has a long, well regarded career marked by praise from author/activists including Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelly, Howard Zinn, Manning Marable and reviews in trade, academic, and popular press.

This, her first book published by a trade publisher, is poised to break out and join with her academic/activist peers in reaching a broader audienceThis book was inspired by and is dedicated to Erica Garner-Eric Garner's daughter-and will be embraced by Black Lives Matter activists

Author Biography

Joy James, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College, is the author of Resisting State Violence; Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics; Transcending the Talented Tenth; Seeking the Beloved Community; and most recently In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love and New Bones Abolition. James's numerous political theory articles on policing, prisons, abolitions, feminisms; and anti-Black racism include "The Womb of Western Theory," an exploration of the Captive Maternal. James is editor of The New Abolitionists; Imprisoned Intellectuals; Warfare in the American Homeland; The Angela Y. Davis Reader; and coeditor of The Black Feminist Reader.