Joy James, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College, is the author of Resisting State Violence; Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics; Transcending the Talented Tenth; Seeking the Beloved Community; and most recently In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love and New Bones Abolition. James's numerous political theory articles on policing, prisons, abolitions, feminisms; and anti-Black racism include ?The Womb of Western Theory,? an exploration of the Captive Maternal. James is editor of The New Abolitionists; Imprisoned Intellectuals; Warfare in the American Homeland; The Angela Y. Davis Reader; and coeditor of The Black Feminist Reader.