Biography

James Tracy is Bay Area-based author and organizer. He brings 30 years of experience in the politics of housing, economic justice and social movements to the classroom.  He has organized with the Eviction Defense Network, Coalition on Homelessness, Community Housing Partnership, Jobs With Justice SF, and his unions. Tracy was the co-Chair of the "Free City" Campaign which made City College of San Francisco tuition free for most students. He is a co-founder of the San Francisco Community Land Trust.

Tracy is the co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Interracial Solidarity in 1960s-70s New Left Organizing, No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements. He is the author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco's Housing Wars. He serves on the Coordinating Committee of the Howard Zinn Book Fair.

 His articles have appeared in Shelterforce, Race Poverty and the Environment,  48 Hills, Maximum Rock and Roll, The Italian-American Review, Contemporary Justice Review and Punk Planet. 

He is the Chair of Labor and Community Studies Department at City College of San Francisco.

Education

• M.A. in Work and Labor Policy, Empire State College, State University of New York (2020).

• B.A. in Humanities, Emphasis in Literacy in Society, New College of California (1998)

• Credential, Adult Education, UC Berkeley Extension, (2020)

Contact

The best way for current students to contact me is through Canvas. Everyone else can email me here. I'll answer emails sent M-Th within 48 hours. Emails sent on weekends will receive an email the following Monday.