by Judah Schept* “The question is, how do you interpret the alley? Do you interpret it as a place, like every architect and every planner does, to walk through, or do you interpret it as a place forbidden to walk … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
by Maurice Rafael Magaña* June 14, 2016, marked the 10-year anniversary of the beginning of a popular uprising in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. The Oaxacan social movement of 2006 formed following the violent eviction of striking teachers from … Continue reading →
In light of recent controversies among progressives and radicals concerning Prop. 62, which would abolish the death penalty in California and replace it with life without parole, we are hosting two pieces that look at the hard issues surrounding death … Continue reading →
by Maartje van der Woude* I vividly remember how excited I was on December 5,1985—the national Dutch holiday of Saint Nicholas (Sinterklaas)—when as a five-year-old girl I painted my white face black and my lips bright red and put on black … Continue reading →
by Alessandro De Giorgi* In a much-quoted segment from the Prison Notebooks, Italian communist intellectual Antonio Gramsci outlined his famous definition of a crisis of hegemony: If the ruling class has lost its consensus, i.e., is no longer “leading” but … Continue reading →
by Julia Morris* Nauru, the world’s smallest island state, located in the Equatorial Pacific, has again catapulted onto the international trading scene. US officials have almost completed their vetting of up to 1,250 refugees, a deal brokered between President Obama’s … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
From Social Justice Vol. 35, No. 2 (2008); see article archive below Paul T. Takagi Honored by Gregory Shank On April 19, 2008, the Association for Asian American Studies honored Professor (Emeritus) Paul Takagi with a Lifetime Achievement Award during its … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →