Shabnam Koirala-Azad and Emma Fuentes, eds. This issue of Social Justice reflects the research and voices of scholars who are concerned with issues of power and representation in academic scholarship. This work challenges existing hierarchies and power dynamics in social science research, creating new possibilities for research in the academy. Given the expansion of global […]
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Anthony M. Platt
End Game: The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action in Higher Education The author offers a historical analysis of affirmative action here, reviewing US “government-supported interventions” to stop and prevent systemic injustices in the last century. Platt provides examples of interventions: entitlement programs that included Civil War veterans’ benefits, World War II G.I. Bill benefits, […]
Lily Wong Fillmore
Equity and Education in the Age of New Racism: Issues for Educators The author articulates her perceptions of the state of equity, especially from the position of an educator. Wong Fillmore argues that biological, racially based theories have returned to the main stage of public discourse in the form of Herrnstein and Murray’s Bell Curve. […]
Lizbet Simmons
Profiting from Punishment: Public Education and the School Security Market This article charts the invigoration of the penal state in an unlikely place: the American public school system. The US educational system and the US correctional system are quintessential representations of the social welfare state and the penal state respectively and are typically configured as […]
María de la Luz Arriaga Lemus
The Mexican Teachers’ Movement: 30 Years of Struggle for Union Democracy and the Defense of Public Education Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect, the region’s education sector has been the site of a great number of mass protests. This article analyzes social movements in the education sector in the context […]
Maurice Rafael Magaña
From the Barrio to the Barricades: Grafiteros, Punks, and the Remapping of Urban Space Magaña analyzes the mass social movement in Oaxaca that originally formed in June 2006 following the violent eviction of striking teachers from their labor union’s annual encampment in the zócalo (main square) of Oaxaca City. By employing an understanding of politics […]
New Pedagogies for Social Change, Vol. 29: 4, 2002
Susan Roberta Katz and Cecilia Elizabeth O’Leary, eds. In the United States today, we are witnessing the dominance of a “new market economy” paradigm in the field of education. As a result, we are currently facing increased state and nationwide efforts to control learning and teaching under the guise of “standards” and “accountability.” At the […]
Reconfiguring Power: Challenges for the 21st Century, Vol. 24: 2, 1997
Edited by Gilberto Arriaza, Jean Ishibashi, and Pedro Noguera This special issue addresses the reconfiguration of power by transnational corporate, worker, and community interests. The language, identity, civil rights, and equity concerns of immigrants, youth, women, and people of color are examined in light of their respective movements, and the possibilities for alliances and the […]
Sheryl J. Croft, Mari Ann Roberts, and Vera L. Stenhouse
The Perfect Storm of High-Stakes Education Reform: High-Stakes Testing and Teacher Evaluation This article examines seemingly disconnected education reform policies and posits that their unprecedented alignment is eroding the bedrock of public education. Using Georgia as an example, the authors demonstrate how neoliberal efforts to reform education occur through three systematic and interconnected fronts: political […]
Simone Weil Davis, with Bruce Michaels
Ripping Off Some Room for People to “Breathe Together”: Peer-to-Peer Education in Prison This article examines the construction of alliances against the dehumanizing effects of the prison-industrial complex by prison educators and their incarcerated peers. It argues that outside allies and faculty who work in higher-education prison programs affiliated with a university need to learn […]
Vol. 41-4: Youth under Control: Punishment and Reform in the Neoliberal State
This special issue critically analyzes the social and penal policies aimed at young people in the United States, focusing in particular on the punitive role played by schools, juvenile courts, and community-based programs.
Vol. 42-1: Miscellaneous
TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstracts [free pdf download] Anatomy of a Done Deal: The Fight over the Iran Nuclear Accord Gregory Shank Absolutely Sovereign Victims: Rethinking the Victim Movement Ronnie Lippens “Putting Cruelty First”: Liberal Penal Reform and the Rise of the Carceral State Jason Vick Sweetheart Settlements, the Financial Crisis, and Impunity: A Case Study of […]
Vol. 48-2 – Neoliberalism in Higher Education
Neoliberalism in Higher Education: Practices, Policies, and Issues edited by Adalberto Aguirre, Jr. & Rubén O. Martinez TABLE OF CONTENTS Editors’ Introduction Neoliberalism in Higher Education: Practices, Policies, and Issues [free pdf download] Adalberto Aguirre, Jr. & Rubén O. Martinez Changing Higher Education in the United Kingdom: Examining Three Trends through a Neoliberal Lens Amy Perry […]
Vol. 48-3
TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACTS [pdf download] Entangling Intentionality: Reflections on Torture and Structure Ergün Cakal Carving the Terrain of Freedom: The Multidimensionality of Youth-Focused Abolition Geography Kaitlyn J. Selman Violent Symbiosis: The History of CCJ’s Role in Legitimizing Racialized Police Violence Ryan Phillips, Brian Pitman & Stephen T. Young “Oscar Did Not Die in Vain”: […]
Waging War over Public Education and Youth Services: Challenging Corporate Control of Our Schools and Communities, Vol. 32: 3, 2005
Gilberto Arriaza, Emma Fuentes, and Susan Roberta Katz, eds. This issue of Social Justice, co-edited by Susan Roberta Katz (University of San Francisco), Gilberto Arriaza (San Jose State University), and Emma Fuentes (University of San Francisco), helps us comprehend the war being waged over public education and services for our communities, youth, and children. It […]
Education, Militarism, and Community, Vol. 38:3, 2011
Gregory Shank and Stefania De Petris (coord.) This issue of Social Justice revolves around prominent influences on public education, including corporatization, militarism, and communities mobilizing in defense of their own interests. Purchase articles (click on the author link to read the abstract and buy the pdf): Editors, Introduction: Education, Militarism, and Community [Free Download] Adalberto […]