While gathered in a small departmental seminar room, several science faculty at Marsh Hall University engage in discussions centered around running universities like a business.Within a variety of topics that cover major issues of the day surrounding higher education institutions, six professors discuss flat enrollments, pay cuts, a potential subsidizing of an entertainment sports complex, the endangered professoriate, mission statements, and campus perturbations brought about by t...

The Political Mel Brooks analyzes both Mel Brooks’s more popular films and his lesser known work to explore how his use of parody and satire, his keen sense of the history of Jewish comedic conventions, and his deep awareness of social issues encompasses a political project that, while often implicit, nonetheless speaks to the enduring political and social impact of his films. Brooks’s work often employs a nuanced political style that acts as a social commentary against those in power and ...

Ten Englishmen of the nineteenth century presents a series of biographical sketches that examine the lives, decisions, and influence of notable figures who shaped England’s political and military landscape. The work begins by outlining the rationale for selecting these individuals, emphasizing how their actions intersected with broader social and historical developments. Early passages establish the context of a nation navigating conflict, reform, and shifting global responsibilities, high...

Each chapter is dedicated to a different figure, such as social reformers, politicians, or intellectuals, exploring their lives, achievements, and the impact they left on British society. These figures might include notable names like William Ewart Gladstone in politics or Charles Darwin in science. Joy offers readers both a personal and professional look at these men, discussing their motivations, challenges, and the broader historical context in which they lived.Through these portraits, ...

In "Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century," James Richard Joy presents a compelling exploration of the lives and legacies of ten pivotal figures who shaped Victorian Britain and its culture. Through a blend of biographical analysis and historical context, Joy employs an engaging narrative style that brings to life the intellectual fervor and societal challenges of the era. The book examines diverse personas'—from poets to statesmen'—dissecting their contributions against the backdrop of...

Angela Davis is iconic as an international figure but few recognize the educational, political and ideological contexts that formed the public persona.Excavating layers of networks, activists, academics, polemicists, and funders across the ideological spectrum, Joy James studies the paradigms and platforms that leveraged Angela Davis into recognition as an activist and radical intellectual.Beginning in Alabama in 1944 with Davis's birthplace and ending in California in 1970 with a ...

Selected essays on radical social change.Written over the course of twenty years, the essays brought together here highlight and analyze tensions confronted by writers, scholars, activists, politicians, and political prisoners fighting racism and sexism. Focusing on the experiences of black women calling attention to and resisting social injustice, the astonishing scale of mass and politically driven imprisonment in the United States, and issues relating to governm...

"An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics."-Slavoj Žižek, author of Living in the End TimesKeywords for Radicals recognizes that language is both a weapon and terrain of struggle, and that all of us committed to changing our social and material reality, to making a world justice-rich and oppression-free, cannot drop words such as democracy,’ occupatio...

Joy James has a long, well regarded career marked by praise from author/activists including Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelly, Howard Zinn, Manning Marable and reviews in trade, academic, and popular press.This, her first book published by a trade publisher, is poised to break out and join with her academic/activist peers in reaching a broader audienceThis book was inspired by and is dedicated to Erica Garner–Eric Garner’s daughter–and will be embraced by Black Lives Matter ac...

Since 1997, the US Department of Defense has transferred more than $7.2bn in military equipment to law enforcement agencies. Furthermore, the DOD is legally required to make various equipment items available to local police and school police departments, from flashlights and sandbags to grenade launchers and armored vehicles. This militarization has, unsurprisingly, been shown to impact Black communities unjustly and is associated with increased killings by police. No wonder there have bee...

Prisons constitute one of the most controversial and contested sites in a democratic society. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, with over 2 million people in jails, prisons, and detention centers; with over three thousand on death row, it is also one of the few developed countries that continues to deploy the death penalty. International Human Rights Organizations such as Amnesty International have also noted the scores of political prisoners...

“Essential reading for those of us working in the university and inside institutions that help the state wage war ... While the conversations are informed by histories of Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous struggle, they unfold in unexpected ways and in the real time of our perilous and shifting grounds” Tiffany Lethabo King, author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native StudiesThis dynamic collection of conversations includes ref...