...Collections of such writings I have found particularly useful to draw from are Angela Y. Davis’s If They Come in the Morning and Joy James’s two edited volumes, Imprisoned Intellectuals...
...did. At least, Harper thinks that he did, although it might have been an accident. The point is, Harper will never know for certain what happened to James, and so...
...joy and catharsis of now and, on the other hand, the impending melancholy of return to the death-dealing world once the song ends and the lights go out. The dissonance...
...evolution that will also help young academics and students navigate philosophy today. Dr. Joy James’ following post includes a transcript taken from a ‘Black August’ interview on RSTV/BPM with FTP...
...in particular the Critique of Judgment, to arrive at this understanding. See my Nussbaum’s Politics of Wonder: How the Mind’s Original Joy Is Revolutionary, with images by Misty Morrison (London:...
...of these, dread, and joy (p.5); I am a philosopher who is painfully aware of a blues-soaked cosmos that is also drenched with the complexity of mystery. What does this...
...Gordon on creolisation. We also engaged with teachings on diverse older traditions (Roy Tzohar, Chike Jeffers, and Samuel Imbo) as well as today’s analyses (Tommy Curry, Joy James, Lee A....
...me, also, to fight against those things within myself.” This is a mixed inheritance, typical of what Joy James calls the captive maternal: Lorde receives tools for survival and self-preservation,...
...work in unexpected ways and that they are contingent as well, a view that could be connected, with some effort, to many American pragmatists’ views, whether in James’s “Will to...
...the experiential center of me. In this sense it goes away. It does not have the function of draining my life of meaning and joy. I once took a course...
