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 […]
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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 […]
Nirmal Kumar Chandra
India in the South Asian Context This article explores the political economy of development in India. It then discusses political issues that reached threatening proportions in the 1990s, almost paralyzing the political process. The most serious challenge since independence to the integrity of the country was triggered by the destruction of the 465-year-old Babri Masjid […]
Noah De Lissovoy
Injury and Accumulation: Making Sense of the Punishing State This article suggests that the pervasive racialization of contemporary state violence calls for an analysis of the penal state that identifies racism and “coloniality” (i.e., the material and symbolic domination of communities of color) as essential components of late capitalism. This approach allows De Lissovoy to […]
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 […]
Pablo Gonzalez Casanova
Globalism, Neoliberalism, and Democracy Finding an alternative to neoliberalism is a moral, political, and social problem and is the most important intellectual problem confronting the social sciences of our time. The alternative to the neoliberal state will be a social democracy that differs from the welfare state, the populist state, or “real socialism.” It will […]
Pablo González Casanova and John Saxe-Fernández
Preface to ‘The World Today’ In December 1993, the center for interdisciplinary research in the Sciences and Humanities of the National University of Mexico organized a seminar entitled “The World Today: Situation and Alternatives.” Its task was to examine the central concerns and problems facing humanity in the final stage of the 20th century, beginning […]
Patrice Sutton and Robert Gould
Introduction: Public Health in the 1990s Issue overview. Citation: Social Justice Vol. 22, No. 4 (1995): i-iv
Paul Jesilow, Gilbert Geis, and John Harris
Doomed to Repeat Our Errors: Fraud in Emerging Health-Care Systems This article focuses on fraud and waste as they have occurred in the past in the delivery of medical services and, most particularly, as they will occur in the quickly expanding health-care reforms. Though new delivery systems are being implemented at a rapid pace, only […]
Paul Kaplan and Jackson Dunn
The Problem of Explanation: Understanding the Scandal of Judicial Override in Capital Cases In this article, the authors analyze the intertwined problems of judgment and explanation through a comprehensive study of judicial override opinions. Of the 33 states that employ capital punishment, three-Alabama, Delaware, and Florida-are unusual in that the final decision on the death […]
Paul T. Takagi: Recollections and Writings
Paul T. Takagi and Gregory Shank (2012), 156 pp., paper, ISBN 978-0-9352060-1-2. $21.95 This collection of biographical essays also includes Paul T. Takagi’s previously unpublished writings. It reviews a 140-year period in which Japanese Americans forged a new trans-Pacific identity. Historians will find a fresh interpretation of the reasons behind the tragic episode of placing […]
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
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 […]
Peggy Saika Interviews Sipfou Saechao
And Do You Feel Like This Is Your Country? Sipfou Saechao, a 16-year-old Laotian, discusses growing up in the Bay Area. adolescence, Asian Americans, environmental groups, girls, youth programs and projects Citation: Social Justice Vol. 24, No. 3 (1997): 221-225
Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Industrial Hazards and Human Rights
Charter on Industrial Hazards and Human Rights Signs of optimism about environmental justice come in the form of the Charter of Rights Against Industrial Hazards. Hope does not derive simply from the Charter itself; if anything, it is further evidence of a seemingly intractable problem. It comes from the extraordinary success of the Permanent Peoples’ […]