Joy James

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Joy James (born 1958) is an American political philosopher, academic, and author. James is the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College. Her books include ''Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals'', ''Shadowboxing'', ''Imprisoned Intellectuals'', ''The New Abolitionists'', ''Resisting State Violence'', ''In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities'' and ''The Angela Y. Davis Reader''. She was a Senior Research Fellow at the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin where she developed the Harriet Tubman Digital Repository.