The Captive Maternal

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Joy James is a political philosopher who works with organizers. Her books include In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner; and Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon. Her edited volumes with Pluto include Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons and ENGAGE: Indigenous, Black, Afro-Indigenous Futures.

Klappentext

Philosopher and organizer Joy James examines the lives of the 'Captive Maternals'-those racialized and 'feminized' into roles of caretaking and consumption, yet compelled to transform through care, protest and movement-making, towards building safe communities to resist war and fascism. Shaped by enslavement, colonialism, rape and resistance (whether female, male, trans or nonbinary), they are integral to the weaving of rebel tapestries.

From domestic upheavals, through cultural revolution and police/military violence, James excavates hidden layers beneath seemingly ordinary narratives, including her biography as a 'military brat' radicalized by socialists, communists, feminists and Black Panther veterans. She deftly draws upon the writers on whose shoulders she stands-Octavia Butler and Toni Morrison, and the politics of Ella Baker, George Jackson and Assata Shakur, Mamie Till Mobley and Ida B. Wells.

The Captive Maternal navigates a powerful terrain where Black, feminist, socialist and anti-carceral studies and organizing converge. Reshaping understandings of power, resilience, and enduring struggles for liberation and justice, James's groundbreaking analysis meditates on revolutionary love, mutations of rebellion, and the fulcra that leverage opposition to violence.

Inhalt

Preface: Family Training Grounds
Introduction: "The United Front Against Fascism"
Americana Runaways

1. Antebellum Austin Reed and the Contemporary Traumatized Child
2. (After)Lives of Sally Hemings, Michelle Obama & Deborah Danner within the 2021 Capitol Siege
3. Imperial State Feminism Disciplines Impacted Black Mothers
   Renegade Culture Refuses Integration
4. Domestic Disturbance Oscars: Mammy, Leticia Musgrove, Mary
5. (Counter)Revolutionary Storytellers: Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison & Black Panther
6. Embattled Black Entertainment: Aretha Franklin and Dave Chappelle
   Anti-Fascist Rebels in War Resistance
7. Ida B. Wells Anticipates Fanon's "Hence Forward" Moment
8. Blood in My Eye: Georgia Jackson's Sons
9. Abort or Birth?: Guerrilla Womb Theory
   Conclusion: Womb Theory's Black Matrix Confronts White Boss Theory: A Captive Maternal View of Kojeve's Introduction to a Reading of Hegel
   Bibliography
   Index