Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., and Shoon Lio This issue of Social Justice offers an overview of the struggle for social justice in the United States by Asian and Pacific Islanders, including the factors that shape oppositional consciousness and the possibility for collective action. Authors address Asian American activism in urban communities–particularly traditional Asian ethnic enclaves–around land […]
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Crossing Lines: Revisioning U.S. Race Relations, Vol. 25: 3, 1998
Elaine H. Kim, Susan Roberta Katz, and Anthony M. Platt, eds. This issue appears as the momentous changes of the last 20 years–the decline of the civil rights coalition, the demise of mass movements for social justice, the rise of New Right and neoliberal politics, the dramatically changing demographics of the country, and divisions among […]
Eric Rofes, David Keiser, Tony Smith, and Matt Wray
White Men and Affirmative Action: A Conversation The authors articulate their perceptions of the state of equity, especially from the position of an educator of white men trying to do the right thing. They reveal issues regarding economics, class, privilege, fear, and the daily practice of challenging one’s own attitudes and those of one’s own […]
Erica R. Meiners
Trouble with the Child in the Carceral State This article examines how the child frames transactions within the US carceral state. Part one defines the frameworks of prison abolition that shape this analysis. Part two identifies the flexibility of the contemporary category of the child using three examples of current tropes of the child within […]
J. Gregg Robinson
Political Cynicism and the Foreclosure Crisis Growth in American political cynicism concerns both scholars and political commentators. This increased distrust in political institutions, many argue, has negatively affected our democracy in general and political participation in particular. Yet, the relationship between cynicism and political activism is more complex than many have claimed. The author examines […]
J. Jorge Klor de Alva and Cornel West
Black-Brown Relations: Are Alliances Possible? Jorge Klor de Alva and Cornel West explore alliances between and among minority groups through dialogue around the possibilities of ethnic and racial alliances. The possibility of struggling together to overcome hierarchical and colonial constructions is complex, yet not impossible, because dominant ideological constructions permeate all of our institutions and […]
Judah Schept
“Keep Local Kids Local”: Departed Capital, Derelict Land, and (Neo)Liberal Detention Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in a small and progressive Midwestern city, this article examines discourses and practices of juvenile justice policy that purport to reject the politics of mass incarceration and yet which embrace local carceral expansion. In a community otherwise […]
Marie Gottschalk
Razing the Carceral State This article examines the deeply racialized and classed architecture of the American carceral edifice to illustrate how the growing opposition to mass incarceration in the United States has tended to gravitate toward two equally flawed positions. The first focuses on racial discrimination as the main line of attack against the carceral […]
Paul Takagi
A Garrison State in “Democratic” Society Paul Takagi’s “A Garrison State in ‘Democratic’ Society” (1974) locates his groundbreaking exposé of police violence against black men in the control of “surplus labor” and the rise of new forms of domestic counterinsurgency. police killings of civilians Citation: Social Justice Vol. 40, Nos. 1-2 (2013): 118-130
Race, Racism, and Empire: Reflections on Canada, Vol. 32: 4, 2005
Enakshi Dua, Narda Razack, and Jody Nyasha, eds. This special issue of Social Justice, guest edited by Enakshi Dua, Narda Razack, and Jody Nyasha, focuses attention on the unique manner in which race, racism, and empire are articulated in the Canadian context. Currents in Canadian critical race scholarship include theorizing the relationship between race, racism, […]
Race, Security, and Social Movements, Vol. 30: 1, 2003
Gregory Shank (coord.) This issue took shape during the buildup to the Bush administration’s preemptive war against Iraq and the worldwide mobilization against it. Its contents appropriately reflect a longer view of US militarism and populist nationalism, the criminalization and repression of domestic dissent, and the movements that have challenged the power arrangements that sustain […]
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 […]
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 […]