Carole Boyce Davies and Claudia Jones: radical Black female subjectivity, mutual comradeship, and alternative epistemology

Abstract

This article examines the shared radical Black female subjectivity and practice of mutual comradeship that bind Carole Boyce Davies and Claudia Jones. It argues that their interrelation provides Boyce Davies with unique insight into Jones’s manifold intellectual, theoretical, and political contributions and has allowed Jones to animate and shape Boyce Davies’s approach to preserving and interpreting her legacy. The conclusion considers the ways that Jones and Boyce Davies offer an alternative epistemology that is instructive for scholars who seek to learn from and continue their ethical and political approach to scholar-activism.