Children and the Environment: Young People’s Participation in Social Change Issue Introduction children, children’s rights, environmentalism, space, geographical, youth Citation: Social Justice Vol. 24, No. 3 (1997): 1-10
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Bernard Schissel
Youth Crime, Moral Panics, and the News: The Conspiracy Against the Marginalized in Canada This article examines the role of the media in scapegoating youth and of manipulating or decontextualizing the perception of youth by the public. This “blaming” is found in historic constrictions and can be intervened with postmodern conceptions of power and its […]
Pedro Noguera
Reconsidering the ‘Crisis’ of the Black Male in America In this article, Noguera cautions against focusing on race and gender in the absense of historical social and economic contexts. He argues that if these contexts are ignored, we will continue to reify, marginalize, and subordinate Black males and not, as institutions believe they do, “save […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
Kim Geron
The Local/Global Context of the Los Angeles Hotel-Tourism Industry Kim Geron describes institutional alliances taking place in the transnational landscape. The author puts forth the notion of social movement unionism as a response by labor unions and community groups to the internationalization of their economic institutions. social movement unionism, hotel-tourism industry, Los Angeles Citation: Social […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rebecca Benjamin
Si Hablas Español Eres Mojado: Spanish as an Identity Marker in the Lives of Mexicano Children In her article, Benjamin argues that subordinating Spanish in linguistic minority children adversely affects their identity formation. She believes that students will never be on an equal footing with English-speaking students because of the racism inherent in our national […]
Gilberto Arriaza
Grace Under Pressure: Immigrant Families and the Nation-State In this article, Arriaza describes the relationship between language, identity formation, and the nation-state. He argues that assimilationist national US policies privileging English and subordinating languages such as Spanish destroy the culture and identity of origin. Keeping one’s language and culture of origin do not contradict the […]
Jean Ishibashi
Foreword to ‘Reconfiguring Power’ Introductory Foreword Citation: Social Justice Vol. 24, No. 2 (1997): 1-5
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 […]
Vol. 42-3/4: Mexican and Chicanx Social Movements
Mexican and Chicanx Social Movements edited by Maylei Blackwell and Edward J. McCaughan This special double issue brings together the work of scholars and activists from Mexico and the United States, representing a variety of disciplines and movements, to discuss current trends in the scholarship and practices of Mexican and Chicanx social movements. The editors […]
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 […]
Mariana Favela
Redrawing Power: #YoSoy132 and Overflowing Insurgencies Favela reflects on her participation in the phenomenon known as #YoSoy132, a mass insurgency that erupted in the midst of the Mexican presidential electoral campaign of 2012. For her, this was neither a political organization, a structure, nor a movement, but rather a convocatory that gathered and unleashed a […]