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5.0
This is Dr. Joy James at her best. I became familiar with her work through the podcasts she did with Millennials are Killing Capitalism and Groundings, and was instantly captivated. Seeking the Beloved Community is a feminist race reader in which she brilliantly weaves together issues of capitalism, racial genocide, heterosexism, liberalism/radicalism/revolution, and violence, and does it in a way that offers critique, vision, and self-reflection. In the Feminist Race Theory section, her analysis of Angela Davis and Assata Shakur was really clarifying. Another of my favorite sections was on Obama and the 2008 election, where she looks at race and gender through the imperial and colonial lens. Overall this was a tremendously insightful book that I know I will go back to.
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