Pamela Evans Harris, also known as Trojan Pam, was a Chicago writer, independent publisher, and skilled technician whose creative life spanned fiction, visual design, and books on racism, relationships, and Black collective survival. Through her publishing work and appearances on The Context of White Supremacy, she brought questions of racial power into discussions of everyday life: how people understood themselves, whom they loved, what they considered beautiful, and how they might act together.
Her public record preserves the political writer and commentator. The personal tribute prepared in her memory reveals a fuller portrait: an imaginative child, a voracious reader, a woman adept at repairing complex machinery, and a storyteller who never relinquished her desire to write. Together, these sources illuminate a life in which practical skill and literary ambition developed alongside one another.
A Chicago Life, an Imaginative Mind
According to the tribute, Harris was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 12, 1953, to Hattye Evans Harris and George B. Harris. Her mother was remembered as the “Mother of the Church” at Mandell United Methodist. A lifelong Chicago resident, Pamela attended Farragut High School and studied English at Northern Illinois University and Kennedy King.
Her imagination was apparent early. As a girl, she invented an entire city, mapping it in elaborate detail. The tribute recalls this creation as something that, in another setting, might have belonged in an art gallery or architectural exhibition. That childhood project was one expression of a wider creative appetite. She read extensively, followed politics and culture, took an interest in real estate, and later used computer-based three-dimensional and character animation to create comic-book texts and designs
Writing remained central to her ambitions. The tribute describes a successful summer program at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, where fellow students singled out her work as the best story written during the course. It also records her short stories and novels, praising her wit and brilliance. Her own recollection captures the tension between earning a living and pursuing a vocation: “I needed to be gainfully employed, but in my heart I knew that I had to be a writer.”
Harris’s working life demanded precision, practical intelligence, and familiarity with complex equipment. After beginning as a postal clerk, she worked for the Federal Aviation Administration as a radar technician from 1979 to 1982. She then became a service technician at Kodak, repairing copying machines. In 1990, she began a long career as an electronics technician with the United States Postal Service, repairing mail-processing equipment until her retirement in 2017.
The tribute describes her as a hands-on pragmatist who knew how to perform highly technical work commonly regarded as “men’s work.” That account places her literary interests within a life of sustained employment and technical accomplishment. Her writing was not the only expression of her abilities, but it was the calling she continued to recognize as her own.
Becoming Trojan Pam
The public archive connects Pamela Evans Harris directly with the name and work through which many readers knew her. A May 2011 program announcement for The Context of White Supremacy, hosted by Gus T. Renegade, identified her as a co-author of Trojan Horse: Death of a Dark Nation. By November 2015, the program described Pam as the founder of Trojan Horse Press and named three further co-authored books: Black Love Is a Revolutionary Act, The Interracial Con Game, and The Beauty Con Game. It also associated her with the Racism Is White Supremacy blog. The publishing project initially used the pseudonym Anon, changing to Umoja for its second book in 2011. The authors’ shared identity matters: although Harris’s contribution is documented, these works should not be presented as hers alone.
In the foreword to Trojan Horse, the authors located their perspective in their experiences of being born and raised in the United States, while acknowledging that racism and white supremacy operated beyond its borders. Their explanation of anonymity rejected both celebrity and cultivated mystery. They acknowledged earlier thinkers, declined to claim they invented the ideas they discussed, and insisted the message mattered more than its messengers.
“The authors reserve the right NOT to be a distraction to the message,” they wrote. Instead, they emphasized readers and what they might do with the information. Agreement was not a condition of success: the book would have served its purpose if it encouraged readers to seek their own understanding.
The Gift She Left Behind: Four Books
The four books Trojan Pam co-authored form a connected body of work examining racial oppression across public institutions and private experience. The following synopses draw on accessible publisher descriptions and extracts, rather than a complete reading of each text.
Trojan Horse: Death of a Dark Nation — 2009
Published under the name Anon, Trojan Horse provides the project’s broad framework. It presents the economic, political, and social difficulties confronting Black America as interconnected consequences of a system sustained partly through deception. Its title evokes danger concealed within something that appears acceptable or harmless. The book’s description identifies “13 Weapons of Mass Mind Destruction”: mechanisms the authors believe powerful interests use to undermine Black understanding and collective action. Its purpose is not simply to expose those mechanisms, but to offer a program of economic and psychological transformation. The accompanying author statement places that effort within a commitment to replacing racism and white supremacy with universal justice.
Black Love Is a Revolutionary Act — 2011
Published under Umoja, Black Love Is a Revolutionary Act brings the wider argument into relationships between Black men and women. It identifies what the authors call the “Black Gender War” as a profound obstacle to collective well-being and argues that such antagonism must be understood within a longer history of racial oppression.The book promises to examine the myths, conflicts, and deceptions that damage relationships and to offer a blueprint for healing individuals, marriages, and families. Within its framework, Black love becomes revolutionary because mutual care and cooperation resist forces that benefit from division. Intimacy is therefore presented not only as a personal concern, but as a matter of collective continuity and survival.
The Interracial Con Game — 2011
The Interracial Con Game examines interracial intimacy through the authors’ analysis of racial hierarchy. Its central question concerns whether the promotion of interracial relationships serves interests beyond individual romantic choice, particularly where Black men and women are concerned. The book advances a forceful and contentious argument, portraying interracial sex as a potential instrument of domination and connecting it to questions of psychological, economic, and genetic survival. Alongside Black Love Is a Revolutionary Act, it extends the authors’ concern with the pressures they believe weaken relationships between Black men and women.
The Beauty Con Game — 2012
The Beauty Con Game turns to standards of appearance and desirability. It argues that white-centred beauty ideals are neither neutral nor merely personal: the authors interpret them as instruments that devalue Black and other non-white people and help sustain racial domination. The book also treats beauty as a commercial enterprise, describing an industry that creates false standards and profits from their effects. It connects these standards to histories of exploitation and racial violence. An indexed introductory note states that the book incorporates chapters from the preceding three works, suggesting that it also gathers earlier arguments into its examination of beauty and power.
A Legacy of Inquiry
Harris died in 2018. A memorial episode of The Context of White Supremacy, originally broadcast on August 22 that year, remembered her life, her publications, and her extensive participation in the program. Its synopsis also associated her with RacismWS.com and TheBlackCode.net, preserving further traces of her independent publishing activity.
The gift she left behind includes the books she helped create, but also the invitation expressed in their foreword: to look beyond personality, examine the argument, and take responsibility for further inquiry. Her story holds together the imaginative child who designed a city, the technician who repaired machines, and the writer who believed that ideas should lead readers toward action. The tribute and public archive preserve those dimensions of her life without reducing one to another.
Meserette’s note: I was fortunate to engage with Trojan Pam in a brief exchange that remains preserved on Kentake Page. In January 2016, she requested permission to reproduce my selection of quotations from Dr. Frances Cress Welsing’s The Isis Papers on her blog, RacismWS.com. After receiving permission, she promised to link back to the original article and added, “By the way, excellent site!” I returned the compliment.
That exchange offers a glimpse of her as an attentive reader and fellow publisher, helping to circulate ideas she considered important. Although I found little biographical information about her, she is a “sistar” whose life and work deserve to be remembered. May she rest in power.
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