No Easy Road to Freedom: Remapping the Struggle for Racial Equality In this paper Anthony M. Platt offers an overview of the struggle for racial equality within a global context. A useful survey of the trajectory and social context of the struggle for racial equality since World War II, the article traces the detour forced […]
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Anthony M. Platt
Mario Savio, The Heart of an Activist Tony Platt’s memories of Berkeley Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio, who died in November 1996. obituaries, Savio, Mario Citation: Social Justice Vol. 23, No. 4 (1996): 14-15
Applied Research and Social Justice, Vol. 30: 4, 2003
Laurie M. Joyner and Edward J. McCaughan, eds. This issue of Social Justice examines how social science research can contribute to the pursuit of social justice through its direct application to resolving concrete social problems, aiding organizing efforts, informing public policy, influencing legislation, or changing institutions. Purchase articles (click on the author link to read […]
Ariane Prohaska and Bronwen Lichtenstein
Losing a Home to Mortgage Foreclosure: Temporary Setback or Chronic Stressor? The foreclosure crisis has been a stressful, life-changing event for millions of people. In this article, we use Pearlin’s (1989) theory of social stress to examine the levels, causes, and duration of foreclosure-related stress on 180 Alabama homeowners who either defaulted on a mortgage […]
Art, Identity, and Social Justice, Vol. 34: 1, 2007
Emmanuel David and Ed McCaughan, eds. This issue of Social Justice examines the role of various media–the visual arts, theater, and performance–in the social justice struggles of communities as diverse as American Indians, Bahamians, North American and Mexican feminists, working-class women in England, and LGBTQ communities of color in New York City and the San […]
Art, Power, and Social Change, Vol. 33: 2, 2006
Edward J. McCaughan and Emmanuel David, eds. This issue of Social Justice is the first of two on the topic, with both edited by Edward J. McCaughan and Emmanuel David. The essays explore many dimensions of the role of art in processes of social change. Some address the power of art as a voice of […]
Arthur MacEwan
Globalization and Stagnation MacEwan discusses the economic conditions of world capitalism, and problems related to globalization. 1. The current neoliberal globalization is not the same as the general, historical spread of capitalism. 2. When globalization has been associated with rapid growth, that growth has had historically specific causes and cannot be attributed to globalization per […]
Asafa Jalata
The Oromo Movement: The Effects of State Terrorism and Globalization in Oromia and Ethiopia This essay critically explores the dialectical relationships between the Oromo national movement and the consequences of state terrorism and globalization in Oromia and Ethiopia. On one side, the Oromo people are struggling to empower themselves and gain control on their economic […]
Asafe Jalata
The Emergence of Oromo Nationalism and Ethiopian Reaction Asafe Jalata’s article forwards our understanding of the very complicated situation in the Horn of Africa. It describes the Oromo national movement’s independence struggle within the historic, multi-ethnic Ethiopian nation-state that was constituted along colonial lines in the middle of the 20th century. That empire came under […]
Asian American and Pacific Islander Population Struggles for Social Justice, Vol. 35: 2, 2008
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 […]
Atilio A. Borón
Governability and Democracy in Latin America The first part of this article explores the meaning of democracy and citizenship, and their tortured relationship to the structures of domination inherent in capitalist societies. The second provides antecedents to the impact of the recession and the liberal-inspired adjustments to the conditions of life of the popular classes […]
Attica: 1971–1991 — A Commemorative Issue (Vol. 18-3)
NOTE: OUT OF PRINT. DIGITAL EDITION ONLY. On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Attica rebellion, we are offering free access to a seminal interview with Michel Foucault following his visit to the prison (follow link in the table of contents below). Our classic 1991 commemorative issue, now available in digital format, provides a retrospective on the Attica rebellion, an assessment […]
Azar Masoumi
(Stop) Deporting Pegah: Sovereignty, (Public) Sex, and (Life)/Death This article reads the highly publicized lesbian refugee case of Pegah Emambakhsh in the UK to argue that the practice of sovereignty, particularly in relation to sexual minority refugees, is a deeply sexual practice. I draw on queer theory and theories of biopolitics and necropolitics to argue […]
Barbara Dinham
Introduction to the Charter of Rights Against Industrial Hazards: For Communities, Workers, and Protection of Their Environment The world has now acquired ample experience of industrial and environmental hazards. Lessons must be learned from these experiences so that those who have died and suffered will not have done so entirely in vain. So judged the […]
Barry S. Levy
Health and Social Effects of Worldwide Economic Transformation: Focus on Occupational and Environmental Health Barry Levy documents the dire implications of global economic transformation for environmental and occupational health. He likens these developments to a global embrace of a value system antithetical to public health while substituting the concept of preventing morbidity and mortality with […]
Beenash Jafri
COMMENTARY Intellectuals Outside the Academy: Conversations with Leanne Simpson, Steven Salaita, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs These conversations with independent academics Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Steven Salaita, and Leanne Simpson were inspired by the following questions: How do we make sense of intellectual work that happens outside of the chokehold of academic institutions? Is it possible to […]