We will host Charisse Burden Stelley, author of Black Scare / Red Scare in conversation with Joy James, author of New Bones Abolition.

The discussion will be introduced and moderated by Geo Maher. 

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Black Scare / Red Scare illuminates the anticommunist nature of the US and its governance, but also shines a light on a misunderstood tradition of struggle for Black liberation. Burden-Stelly highlights the Black anticapitalist organizers working within and alongside the international communist movement and analyzes the ways the Black Scare/Red Scare reverberates through ongoing suppression of Black radical activism today.

New Bones Abolition weaves a narrative of a historically complex and engaged people seeking to quell state violence. Joy James analyzes the “Captive Maternal,” which emerges from legacies of colonialism, chattel slavery and predatory policing, to explore the stages of resistance and communal rebellion that manifest through war resistance.

Speakers:

Charisse Burden-Stelley, is associate professor of African American studies at Wayne State University. She is the author of Black Scare / Red Scare and the coauthor of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History, and the coeditor of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing.

Joy James, is the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College, in addition to New Bones Abolition, James is the author of eight books including Resisting State Violence, In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love, and Contextualizing Angela Davis. James's work as an editor includes The New Abolitionists, Imprisoned Intellectuals, and The Angela Y. Davis Reader

Moderator: 

Geo Maher is the coordinator of the W.E.B. Movement Du Bois School for Abolition and Reconstruction, and the author of five books including A World Without Police and Anticolonial Eruptions.