Arizona: A Reflection and Conversation on the Migrant Rights Movement, 2015 Téllez examines recent forms of activism and organizing that women have innovated in Arizona on the front lines of some of the most vicious anti-immigrant discourse and policing practices witnessed in decades. Through testimonios with activists, Téllez chronicles the initial forms of activism that […]
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Juan D. Ochoa
Shine Bright Like a Migrant: Julio Salgado’s Digital Art and Its Use of Jotería Ochoa explores the digital art of Undocuqueer movement activist Julio Salgado through what the author conceptualizes as a jotería analytic that is informed by Chicana feminisms, queer of color critique, and Chicana/o Studies. Similar to the political project of Chicana lesbian […]
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 […]
Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo
Social Justice and Feminist Activism: Writing as an Instrument of Collective Reflection in Prison Spaces The author describes her experience working as an academic and activist in penitentiary spaces in Mexico, with indigenous and mestiza women who are victims of a penal state that criminalizes poverty and social protest. With the purpose of cultivating ethnographic […]
Maylei Blackwell
Geographies of Difference: Transborder Organizing and Indigenous Women’s Activism Based on a collaborative research relationship with activists of the Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales forged over many years, this essay explores the uneven transnational terrains of power that structure indigenous transborder organizing and the radically uneven geographies of difference that organizers must learn to navigate […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Devra Anne Weber
“Different Plans”: Indigenous Pasts, the Partido Liberal Mexicano, and Questions about Reframing Binational Social Movements of the 20th Century Inspired by evidence found while researching the grassroots base of the binational Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) of the early twentieth century, Weber argues that indigenous organizing in binational and other social movements is more a continuity […]
Alessandro De Giorgi
Book Review: Hadar Aviram, Cheap on Crime This review of Hadar Aviram’s Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment (2015) examines another important recent contribution in the field of punishment and society. book review, punishment, imprisonment Citation: Social Justice Vol. 42, No. 2 (2015): 195-200
Leonidas Cheliotis, Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, Mona Lynch, Rebecca McLennan, Tony Platt, and Jonathan Simon
Book Review Symposium: Jonathan Simon, Mass Incarceration on Trial An international review symposium featuring comments by five contributors discusses Jonathan Simon’s Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America (2014). This book takes on the difficult challenge of decrypting current penal trends and imagining the possible futures of […]
Simone Weil Davis, with Bruce Michaels
Ripping Off Some Room for People to “Breathe Together”: Peer-to-Peer Education in Prison This article examines the construction of alliances against the dehumanizing effects of the prison-industrial complex by prison educators and their incarcerated peers. It argues that outside allies and faculty who work in higher-education prison programs affiliated with a university need to learn […]