In pursuit of revolutionary love : precarity, power, communities / Joy James.

  • Joy James
Date:
2022
  • Books

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Description

"Violence is arrayed against me because I'm Black, or female, or queer, or undocumented. There is no rescue team coming for us. With that knowledge, we need a different operational base to recreate the world. It is not going to be a celebrity savior. Never was, never will be. If you're in a religious tradition that is millennia-old, consider how the last savior went out. It was always going to be bloody. It was always going to be traumatic. But there's a beauty to facing the reality of our lives. Not our lives as they're broken apart, written about and then sold back to us in academic or celebrity discourse. But our lives as we understand them. The most important thing is showing up. Showing up and learning how to live by and with others, learning how to reinvent ourselves in this increasing wasteland. That's the good life."--From back cover.

Publication/Creation

Brussels : Divided Publishing, 2022.

Physical description

xxvii, 331 pages ; 22 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-328) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Da'Shaun L. Harrison -- Preface : Oshun's flight -- Introduction: Where is revolutionary love? -- Part I: Precarity in activism -- Revolutionary love resists democracy -- "Sorrow, tears, and blood" disavows the talented tenth -- Seven lessons in one abolitionist notebook : on airbrushing revolution -- Anti-racist algorithms in abolition alchemy -- The limits of Black studies / with K. Kim Holder -- Power and contradictions of communal socialism Foreword / Da'Shaun L. Harrison -- Preface : Oshun's flight -- Introduction: Where is revolutionary love? -- Part I: Precarity in activism -- Revolutionary love resists democracy -- "Sorrow, tears, and blood" disavows the talented tenth -- Seven lessons in one abolitionist notebook : on airbrushing revolution -- Anti-racist algorithms in abolition alchemy -- The limits of Black studies / with K. Kim Holder -- Power and contradictions of communal socialism / with K. Kim Holder -- Part II: Power in structures -- Reaching beyond "Black faces in high places" / with George Yancy and Truthout -- Political theory in the academy / with Carlotta Hartmann of People for Womxn* in Philosophy -- Captive maternals, the exonerated Central Park Five, and abolition / with Chris Time Steele of Time Talks -- (Re)thinking the Black feminist canon / with Paris Hatcher of Black Feminist Future -- How the university (de)radicalizes social movements / with Rebecca A. Wilcox of the Political Theology Network -- Angela Davis was a Black Panther (AKA "pragmatism vs revolutionary love") / with Too Black and Ryan of the Black Myths Podcast -- Part III: Communities in conflict and care -- Troubling Black feminism / with Momodou Taal of The Malcolm Effect and Khadijah Anabah Diskin -- The plurality of abolitionism / with Felicia Denaud and Devyn Springer of Groundings -- On the rise of the Black bourgeoisie / with Jason Myles and Pascal Robert of This is Revolution -- We remember the attempts to be free: Part I / with Joshua Briond and Jared Ware of Millennials are Killing Capitalism -- We remember the attempts to be free: Part II / with Joshua Briond and Jared Ware of Millennials are Killing Capitalism -- Conclusion: The agape of peaches -- Afterword / Mumia Abu-Jamal. / with K. Kim Holder -- Part II: Power in structures -- Reaching beyond "Black faces in high places" / with George Yancy and Truthout -- Political theory in the academy / with Carlotta Hartmann of People for Womxn* in Philosophy -- Captive maternals, the exonerated Central Park Five, and abolition / with Chris Time Steele of Time Talks -- (Re)thinking the Black feminist canon / with Paris Hatcher of Black Feminist Future -- How the university (de)radicalizes social movements / with Rebecca A. Wilcox of the Political Theology Network -- Angela Davis was a Black Panther (AKA "pragmatism vs revolutionary love") / with Too Black and Ryan of the Black Myths Podcast -- Part III: Communities in conflict and care -- Troubling Black feminism / with Momodou Taal of The Malcolm Effect and Khadijah Anabah Diskin -- The plurality of abolitionism / with Felicia Denaud and Devyn Springer of Groundings -- On the rise of the Black bourgeoisie / with Jason Myles and Pascal Robert of This is Revolution -- We remember the attempts to be free: Part I / with Joshua Briond and Jared Ware of Millennials are Killing Capitalism -- We remember the attempts to be free: Part II / with Joshua Briond and Jared Ware of Millennials are Killing Capitalism -- Conclusion: The agape of peaches -- Afterword / Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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  • 9781739843106
  • 173984310X