Join WGSS guest speaker Dr. Joy James, the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College. Author of the forthcoming "FULCRUM: The Captive Maternal Leverages Democracy,"

James is also the author of Resisting State Violence; Transcending the Talented Tenth; Seeking the 'Beloved Community'; and Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics.

Her edited anthologies on prison abolitionism and protest politics include: The New Abolitionists; The Angela Y. Davis Reader; Imprisoned Intellectuals; Warfare in the American Homeland; States of Confinement. James's writings have appeared in the New York Times, The Boston Review, Critical Studies; The Black Scholar. She is co-editor of the "2016 Election" Abolitionist Collective blog.

Talk Abstract:

This talk begins with Senator Bernie Sanders's use of President Franklin Roosevelt 's condemnation of monopoly capitalism to discuss social justice. Along with a democratic socialist critique of capital, it explores rebellion against police violence by captive maternals such as Erica Garner; and concludes with a reflection the afterlife of femicide and racism in triumphal country/soul women's protest music such as the "Highwomen."