Joy James on Du Bois, Liberation Struggles, & Revolutionary Love
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Joy James joins Breht and PM for the third installment of Rev Left's ongoing Du Bois series, but this conversation goes well beyond the life and work of Du Bois to cover James' newest book, her long history of organizing, the history of black liberation struggles in the US, and much more. Together, they discuss George Jackson, James' concept of the Captive Maternal, Erica Garner, "New Bones Abolition", Marxism, black history, Ida B. Wells, and much more. Overall its a wide-ranging conversation with an incredibly wise and experienced revolutionary intellectual.
Dr. James is Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. Her book is New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)life of Erica Garner. Proceeds from New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner go to Prison Radio.
Check out Dr. Joy James on Millennials are Killing Capitalism HERE & HERE
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Outro Music: "Sorrow Tears and Blood" by Fela Kuti
Transcript
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| 0:14.7 | Hello everybody welcome back to revolutionary left radio. I'm your host Brett O'Shea and today we have kind of like halfway the third installment of our de boy series and also just its own episode in his own right. We have on the |
| 0:18.8 | one and only Dr. Joy James and of course my co-host for the De Bois series PM Irvin to talk about |
| 0:26.7 | De Bois but also talk about James's newest book New Bones Abolition |
| 0:31.8 | Captive Maternal Agency in the Afterlife of Erica Garner. |
| 0:35.9 | We talk about George Jackson, we talk about Du Bois and Ida B Wells, we talk about Erica Garner, the daughter of Eric Garner who was |
| 0:46.5 | killed by police and the activism that she engaged in after the death of her |
| 0:51.2 | father up until her untimely passing at the young age of 27. |
| 0:57.2 | We talk about the We-charged genocide petition to the United States, signed by Du Bois, Paul Robison, Claudia Jones, and others. |
| 1:06.4 | Of course we talk about Joy James's book and some of the core concepts within it and just |
| 1:11.6 | have a really fascinating wide-ranging discussion on all of these |
| 1:16.8 | topics and of course you can ask a question to Dr. James and she expertly just continues to discuss that question, takes it in |
| 1:25.9 | fascinating directions, advances really profound analysis, and I just found this |
| 1:31.4 | conversation really enjoyable and I think you will as well. |
| 1:36.0 | And I wanted to say, as I say at the very end of this episode, her book, the one that we're sort of discussing today new bones abolition |
| 1:44.0 | a hundred percent of the proceeds go to prison radio so if you buy the book not only do |
| 1:49.8 | you get a wonderful text but you also get to support a good cause so definitely do that if |
| 1:56.8 | you're interested and if anything in this conversation peaks your interest. |
| 2:01.2 | I also want to say we have an ongoing relationship with the |
| 2:03.7 | wonderful folks over at leftwing books dot net associated with Chris Bledebledeb and |
| 2:08.6 | they're still offering Rev left listeners 15% off anything in their library. I'll link to that in the show |
| 2:17.3 | notes and the link that I'll put in the show notes automatically applies that |
| 2:20.9 | Rev Left code at checkout to get that 15% off |
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