Women & Political Imprisonment: From Rosa Parks to Ramona Afrika
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 18/10/2022

A lecture by Joy James examining the history of the American government's violent racialized and gendered transgressions against Black women radicals.

This event was co-sponsored by the Multicultural Student Center’s Institute for Justice Education & Transformation, the Departments of Political Science, Afro-American Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies, and Global Studies at UW-Madison.

Joy James is Presidential Professor of the Humanities and a professor of Political Science at Williams College. Professor James is the author of: Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics; Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals; andResisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race in U.S. Culture. Her edited books include: Warfare in the American Homeland; The New Abolitionists: (Neo) Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings; Imprisoned Intellectuals; States of Confinement; The Black Feminist Reader (co-edited with TD Sharpley-Whiting); and The Angela Y. Davis Reader. She  is completing a book on the prosecution of 20th-century interracial rape cases, tentatively titled “Memory, Shame & Rage.” She has contributed articles and book chapters to journals and anthologies addressing feminist and critical race theory, democracy, and social justice. Professor James is also curator of the Harriet Tubman Literary Circle (HTLC) digital repository, which is part of the University of Texas human rights archives: http://sites.tdl.org/htlc/