Tribute to Alonso Aguilar Monteverde: Ten Key Policies for Understanding the Neoliberal Transformation of Mexican Capitalism This tribute to teacher and social activist, Alonso Aguilar Monteverde, outlines crucial aspects of the neoliberal transformation of the Mexican socioeconomic system. Among the changes are aspects of the operation of capitalism in Mexico the political synthesis between economic […]
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Alejandro Alvarez Béjar
Global Economic Crisis and Social Movements in Mexico and North America Alvarez highlights modalities of social resistance in Mexico at the national and regional levels, taking into consideration the current phase of the global capitalist crisis. The author first identifies the characteristic features of the global crisis of neoliberal capitalism. He then discusses the significance […]
Beyond National: Identities, Social Problems, and Movements, Vol. 26: 3, 1999
Ed McCaughan, ed. The articles in this issue attempt to add specificity and nuance to our understanding of the range of social processes implicit in the terms “globalization” and “transnationalism.” Globalization and, to a lesser extent, transnationalism are terms deployed with increasing frequency as shorthand for complex social processes that occur beyond national boundaries. Globalization […]
Citizenship Surveillance of La Gente: Citizenship Theory, Practice, and Cultural Citizen Voices, Vol. 35: 1, 2008
Melissa Moreno, ed. In this issue of Social Justice, authors call for citizenship inclusion of young Latinas/os in schools and society, since they are a politically underrepresented emerging “majority” in California and other states. How should la gente (the people), Latina/o families and their community allies, contend with the power imbued in citizenship ideologies and […]
Colin Gunckel
Review of McCaughan, Art and Social Movements The author describes how Edward J. McCaughan’s Art and Social Movements adds to an exciting body of recent scholarship and exhibitions that reconsiders the role of cultural production, and visual culture in particular, within late twentieth century social movements. This new books enters into a dialogue with earlier […]
Colin Gunckel
Building a Movement and Constructing Community: Photography, the United Farm Workers and El Malcriado The United Farm Workers’ widely circulated publication El Malcriado was highly influential in shaping Chicano movement print culture and the way it visualized emerging conceptions of identity, community, and politics. This essay examines use of photography within El Malcriado, the various […]
Edward J. McCaughan
Art, Identity, and Mexico’s Gay Movement The author examines how visual artworks produced in the context of Mexico’s LGBT movements helped to shape new discourses and imagine new subjects constituted around the intersections of gender, sexuality, and national identity. McCaughan’s analysis is based on a digital archive of some 600 works of art; for the […]
Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez: A Life in Struggle, Vol. 39: 2-3
Please note: This issue is out of print. However, you may still purchase the digital version (pdf download).
Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez
Elizabeth “Betita” Sutherland Martínez, In Her Own Words Personal notes, poetry, and political writings Elizabeth “Betita” Sutherland Martínez Citation: Social Justice Vol. 39, No. 2-3 (2012): 49-82
Emilia Carlevaro and Margaret Randall
Uruguay: A Woman Remembers This conversation between Emilia Carlevaro, a longtime political activist and Uruguayan member of the Latin American Organization of the Families of the Disappeared, and Margaret Randall, a feminist poet, writer, photographer, and social activist is a valuable history with lessons for new generations of activists. It explores the shared experience ofArgentina, […]
Gaspar Rivera-Salgado
From Hometown Clubs to Transnational Social Movement: The Evolution of Oaxacan Migrant Associations in California This article examines the multiple forms of immigrant-led organizations found among the indigenous Oaxacan diaspora in the state of California. The economic and social impact of the almost 12 million migrants has been such that it has transformed the places […]
Gisela Espinosa Damián
The Fruitful and Conflictive Relationship between Feminist Movements and the Mexican Left This article describes the Mexican feminist movement over the last four decades as a multifaceted entity situated on the periphery of a multi-centered patriarchy. Espinosa’s analysis emphasizes the popular and indigenous feminist currents, which are omitted from a historiography of Mexican feminism that […]
J. Patrice McSherry
The Víctor Jara Case and the Long Struggle against Impunity in Chile The judicial case concerning the 1973 torture and murder of Víctor Jara, beloved Chilean singer-songwriter and pioneer of Chile’s New Song movement, has continued for almost 40 years. Víctor Jara was a celebrated musician, theater director, and composer. His songs spoke stirringly of […]
Jaime Osorio
The Latin American Debate: Dependent Capitalism, Superexploitation, and Revolution Latin America occupies a conflictive place within the universal discourse constructed by capitalist modernity. The region and its processes question and deny that universality, something that requires a way of thinking that can explain that negation. With that objective in mind, the author analyzes different moments […]
Jaime Osorio
Super-Exploitation, and Dependency: Notes on The Dialectics of Dependency With the publication of Dialéctica de ladependencia (The Dialectics of Dependency) by Ruy Mauro Marini, Latin American social theory was able to culminate a great effort in the interest of formulating a theory of dependent capitalism and the laws by which it is reproduced. At the […]
Job Hernández Rodríguez
Mexico: Economic Change without Democracy The article analyses the way in which ceaseless capitalist modernization established the bases for building the legitimacy of bourgeois domination in Mexico during the twentieth century. It explains how the strategy of accelerated modernization ultimately required a controlled reform of the state, directed from above, which was carried out to […]