In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities

(Draft version: As of September 2022, the book has not been officially released.) Joy James’ In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love comprises recent writing by the US-American political theorist and visionary. Focusing on her writing on community and abolition, James carves a path through the love and grief that is the motor for Black liberation. She uses her experience working with political prisoners to bring forward the traces of this love that makes freedom possible. James’ work is not available outside of academic contexts and contexts of political organization, we are working to connect it with readers more widely. Preface: Oshun’s Flight Introduction: Black Revolutionary Love Reimagines Democracy I. Analyzing Precarity and Power 1. “Sorrow, Tears and Blood” 2. 7 Lessons in 1 Abolitionist Notebook 3. Airbrushing Revolution for the Sake of Abolition 4. The Algorithm of Anti-Racism Meets Abolition Alchemy 5. Panther Afterlife Plan A: Build Community 6. Panther Afterlife Plan B: Organize Social Communalism II. Communal Organizing and Podcast Pedagogy 7. Black Lives Between Grief and Action (Yancy/The Opinionator) 8. Reaching Beyond “Black Faces in High Places” (Truthout) 9. Coming to Political Theory in the Academy (PWIP) 10. On the Academy, the Captive Maternal and the Central Park Case (Time Talks) 11. The Plurality of Abolitionism (Groundings Podcast) 12. (Re)Thinking the Black Feminist Canon (Black Feminist Futures) 13. “What Are Our Sources for Struggle?”: Black Feminisms (The Malcolm Effect) 14. Pragmatism and Revolutionary Love (Black Myths Podcast) 15. On the Rise of the Black Bourgeoisie (This Is Revolution) 16. I. We Remember the Attempts to Be Free (Millennials Are Killing Capitalism) 17. II. We Remember the Attempts to Be Free (Millennials Are Killing Capitalism) 18. Universities De-Radicalize, Agape Re-Radicalizes (“RAW”/Political Theology Network) 19. In the Spirit of Jericho (Jericho Movement/In the Spirit of Nelson Mandela) Conclusion: The Agape of Peaches