The Chinese Suburban Immigration and Political Diversity in Monterey Park, California John Horton uses ethnographic interviews, exit polls, and census data to research the ethnic transformation of Monterey Park (a suburb of Los Angeles), occasioned by the influx of Chinese immigrants and the ensuing economic, social, and political transformations as well as dislocation. In spite […]
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Juan Fal
Argentina’s Model of Accumulation: Twenty Years of Ruptures and Continuities Responding to current debates about the nature of Argentina’s economic model, this article analyzes the ruptures and continuities in the country’s model of accumulation and power bloc since the 1990s. The author argues that changes facilitated by the devaluation of Argentina’s currency in 2002 benefited […]
Juan Herrera
Spatializing Chicano Power: Cartographic Memory and Community Practices of Care This article endeavors to broaden the scope of the Chicano movement by moving away from an analysis of militant and protest forms of organizing. Instead, Herrera analyzes neighborhood grassroots organizing and institution-building projects centered on practices of community care. Utilizing ethnographic engagement with several community-based […]
Karen Musalo & Blaine Bookey
Crimes without Punishment: An Update on Violence against Women and Impunity in Guatemala The authors provide an overview of the prevalence and patterns of violence against women in Guatemala, which has one of the highest rates of femicide, or gender-motivated killing of women, in the world. They examine barriers to effective implementation of the laws […]
Margaret Randall
Cuban Postcards Author Margaret Randall describes developments in Cuba through her artistic lens using photographs and words. Her intimate knowledge of the country and its struggles give the essay its poinancy and power. Cuba, artists Citation: Social Justice Vol. 40, No. 4 (2013): 118-136
Margarita López Maya
Venezuela: The Political Crisis of Post-Chavismo In the context of the death of Hugo Chávez and the election of Nicolás Maduro, this article describes some of the main causes and features of the political crisis developing today in Venezuela. It shows the continuities and differences of the Chávez era in regard to the previous years […]
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 […]
Nestor Rodriguez
U.S. Immigration and Intergroup Relations in the Late 20th Century: African Americans and Latinos Nestor Rodriguez discusses the arena of intergroup relations between African Americans and Latinos from the perspective of Latino immigration. He begins by locating the arena of intergroup relations within larger structural processes related to global change and immigration. Utilizing findings from […]
Olga Talamante
De Campesina a Internacionalista (From Farmworker Girl to Internationalist): Encuentros y Desencuentros The author, a veteran Chicana activist and former political prisoner, describes her journey from child farm laborer to international human rights activist, feminist, and LGBT rights advocate. Talamante traces the origins of her political consciousness to the fields of California’s Santa Clara Valley, […]
Pablo Cuevas Valdés and Teresa Rojas Martini
The Neoliberal Chilean Process Four Decades after the Coup The authors argue that in Chile, the process of changing from an economic model based on industrial production to one oriented toward exports of specialized products ruptured the mechanisms of political legitimacy linked to the former. At first, this rupture took the form of violent authoritarianism […]
Regina L. Martinez
Beyond Mexico’s Woman: Negotiating Gender and Race in Dominant Narratives of Nation In this article, Martinez looks at how gender, race, and language can be counterhegemonic through narratives that break national and dichotomous constructions, i.e., Mexican or “American” (US). Benjamin focuses primarily on students’ narratives. gender, race, language Citation: Social Justice Vol. 24, No. 2 […]
Ruth Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada
Grassroots Peacemaking: The Paradox of Reconciliation in El Salvador This article challenges the premises of “reconciliation” for state-led processes that reunites post-conflict societies. Based on ethnographic research in El Salvador, it is argued that such efforts entail condemning human rights violations and celebrating the transition to peace, yet overlook socio-economic disparities. The result is a […]
Shadows of State Terrorism: Impunity in Latin America, Vol. 26: 4, 1999
J. Patrice McSherry and Raúl Molina Mejía, eds. On the cusp of the 21st century, the long shadows of state terrorism still haunt Latin America. For millions of people in the region, the memory of predator states that turned on their own citizens persists; for some, as in Colombia today, political violence and state terrorism […]
Special issue: Latin America Revisited, Vol. 40-4
Edited by Edward McCaughan and Susanne Jonas. With articles by veteran observers and activists as well as up-and-coming scholars, this issue discusses the current state of Latin America, now two decades into the uneven transitions to democracy following an era of dictatorships and armed revolutionary conflicts. The issue’s first section analyzes the historical and ongoing […]
The Intersection of Ideologies of Violence, Vol. 30: 3, 2003
Alberto Arenas, Gilberto Arriaza, and Victoria Sanford, eds. This issue explains violence at the local and global levels, as well as its manifestations in society’s structural, material, cultural, and political spheres. Four central ideologies of violence discussed are patriarchal domination, white supremacy, religious fundamentalism, and savage competition and individualism, nurtured by an extreme concentration of […]