New Bones

"Praise for Political Theorist Joy James ""Transcending the Talented Tenth proposes original analyses of historical portrayals of the African American intelligentsia as a way of understanding the contested terrain on which contemporary black intellectuals work. . . Joy James' work is a pioneering intervention.""—Angela Y. Davis  “This extraordinary collection brings us their voices, their ideas, which have been muffled too long.”—Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States  ""Remarkable...James reveals a radical tradition that could free us all.""—Robin D. G. Kelley  ""Americans have a hard time thinking about race, gender, and class at the same time, especially when intellectuals are in question. But not Joy James. Her refreshing discussion of black thought refuses to stop with men or the highly educated. This is what African-American Studies is about in the best sense of the phrase.""—Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People  ""A superb collection―both instructive and inspiring. Joy James is to be complimented for this book and for her thoughtful introductory essay.”—Dennis Brutus, poet and former political prisoner of South African Apartheid  “These essays detail how the continual intensification of criminalization is grounded in the principles of racism, expropriation, and aggression that centrally organize the land of the ever-diminishing free.”—Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California  “Joy James' excellent volume demands our involvement in the struggle.”—Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations"