This post is part of a series on the possible impacts of Trump’s election on a variety of social justice issues. Click here to read more. • • • by Marla A. Ramírez* Despite the widespread rhetoric that depicts the United States as a country of immigrants and a land of opportunity for all, and despite the fact that […]
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Donald Trump and Immigration: A Few Predictions
This post is part of a series on the possible impacts of Trump’s election on a variety of social justice issues. Click here to read more. • • • by Ray Michalowski* As the great Yankee’s baseball catcher and American philosopher Yogi Berra once said, “Only a fool would make predictions. Especially about the future.” With that caution in […]
A Queer Exemption? What Trump’s Presidency Means for LGBTQ Politics
This post is part of a series on the possible impacts of Trump’s election on a variety of social justice issues. Click here to read more. • • • by Clare Sears* Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was characterized by raging rambling speeches and late-night belligerent tweets that threatened and mocked multiple groups of people. Undocumented immigrants, Muslims, disabled people, […]
Orange is the New Green: The Environmental Justice Implications of Trump’s EPA
This post is part of a series on the possible impacts of Trump’s election on a variety of social justice issues. Click here to read more. • • • by Jordan E. Mazurek* Let’s start by ripping that big orange band-aid off. This piece will not make you hopeful. The environmental justice movement—that is, the grassroots movement championed by […]
Social Justice, Environmental Destruction, and the Trump Presidency: A Criminological View
This post is part of a series on the possible impacts of Trump’s election on a variety of social justice issues. Click here to read more. • • • by Michael J. Lynch, Paul B. Stretesky, Michael A. Long, and Kimberly L. Barrett* We represent three generations of scholars who study environmental crime, law and justice, and the enforcement […]
Donald Trump and Race
This post is part of a series on the possible impacts of Trump’s election on a variety of social justice issues. Click here to read more. • • • by Jason Williams* The ascendency of Donald Trump to the highest office in the United States was for some a surprise, and for others something that could have been expected. […]
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Bracing for Trump’s Anti-Worker, Corporate Agenda
This post is part of a series on the possible impacts of Trump’s election on a variety of social justice issues. Click here to read more. • • • by Colin Jenkins* Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I […]
Neoliberal Authoritarianism: Notes on Penal Politics in Trump’s America
This post is part of a series on the possible impacts of Trump’s election on a variety of social justice issues. Click here to read more. • • • by Alessandro De Giorgi* I have a message for all of you: The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon—and I mean very soon—come […]
Punishment and Policing in the Trump Era
This post is part of a series on the possible impacts of Trump’s election on a variety of social justice issues. Click here to read more. • • • by Michelle Brown* In the days to come under the Trump presidency, the United States will move toward the end goal of any carceral regime: dehumanizing repression. […]
Statement of the SJ Editorial Board on the Election of Donald Trump
Dear Readers and Friends:We all started 2017 with a heavy heart. The election of Donald Trump has cast a shadow on the days ahead of us, and his first appointments to the highest offices in the country have fueled our indignation and confirmed our fears. We fear the retrenchment of civil rights and women’s rights we hoped we would […]