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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784374903321

Autore

James Joy <1958->

Titolo

Resisting state violence [[electronic resource] ] : radicalism, gender, and race in U.S. culture / / Joy James ; foreword by Angela Y. Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c1996

ISBN

0-8166-8745-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Disciplina

303.484

305.8/00973

306.2/0973

Soggetti

Minority women - United States - Political activity

Political culture - United States

Racism - United States

Violence - United States

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface: Reading... Resistance...; Acknowledgments; Part I. Rage and Resistance Lessons: Political Life and Theory; Part II. Colonial Hangovers: U.S. Policies at Home and Abroad; Part III. Cultural Politics: Black Women and Sexual Violence; Part IV. Teaching, Community, and Political Activism; Conclusion: United Nations Conventions, Antiracist Feminisms, and Coalition Politics; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

African American scholar-activist Joy James offers a stimulating and iconoclastic account of a world in which the United States functions as the political-police center. 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.