Renaissance Woman: Appreciations of Helen Safa Commemoration of the life and work of scholar-activist Helen Safa after her death in November 2013. pioneering scholarship, Latin American Studies Citation: Social Justice Vol. 40, No. 4 (2013): 137-139
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Susanne Jonas and Suzie Dod Thomas
Editors’ Introduction: Immigration, a Civil Rights Issue Issue overview immigration Citation: Social Justice Vol. 23, No. 3 (1996): 1-8
Tanya Golash-Boza
Structural Racism, Criminalization, and Pathways to Deportation for Dominican and Jamaican Men in the US Structural racism—in the form of heavy policing, residential segregation, and limited social services and labor opportunities—combined with changes in immigration laws in 1996 and the rise of immigration policing in the early twenty-first century has shaped the incorporation patterns of […]
Tessa Koning-Martínez
With All the Struggles, Remember to Keep Life Sweet Betita’s daughter reflects on living with her activist mother. Elizabeth “Betita” Sutherland Martínez Citation: Social Justice Vol. 39, No. 2-3 (2012): 2-2
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Japan: Beyond the ‘Lessons of Growth’ The fall of the Berlin Wall and the break-up of the Soviet bloc marked a dramatically visible turning point in the history of Eastern Europe. It is also becoming increasingly clear that these events marked a less visible, but nonetheless profound, turning point in the history of many other […]
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 […]
The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove
OUT OF STOCK Tony Platt et al. (2nd printing, 1977). 232 pp., paper, ISBN 0-935206-02-07. $19.95 “To round out the list of books that influenced my own development … I must mention the 1977 edition of an important work on the American policing, The Iron Fist and Velvet Glove: An Analysis of the U. S. Police. First […]
The Many Faces of Violence, Vol. 32: 2, 2005
Gregory Shank, ed. Each contribution to this issue of Social Justice reveals a facet of the many forms that violence takes. Given its immediacy, we often focus on the scourge of interpersonal predatory violence. Arguably, though, structural violence, including racism, and institutional violence take a greater human toll. State violence, in the form of warfare, […]
The World Today, Vol. 23: 1-2, 1996
Pablo González Casanova and John Saxe-Fernández Edited by Pablo González Casanova and John Saxe-Fernández, this special 375-page collection includes contributions on the world situation on every continent in the final stage of the 20th century. Given the failure of social democracy, real socialism, and the nationalism of the poor countries, the goal was not only […]
The World Today, Vol. 23: 1-2, 1996
Edited by Pablo González Casanova and John Saxe-Fernández This special 375-page collection includes contributions on the world situation on every continent in the final stage of the 20th century. Given the failure of social democracy, real socialism, and the nationalism of the poor countries, the goal was not only to describe the world today, but […]
Thomas Bodenheimer
The Industrial Revolution in Health Care This is a historical overview of health care in the U.S. The increasing tendency for profits to be severed from socially beneficial endeavors is borne out by Thomas Bodenheimer’s analysis of the evolution of the U.S. health care system. Bodenheimer explains that in contrast to the past when health […]
Tony Platt
“Street” Crime: A View from the Left Originally published in 1978, this essay by Tony Platt points out that the phenomenon of “street” crime had been largely ignored by the US Left. It is treated moralistically and attributed to the parasitical elements in capitalist society, mechanically following Marx and Engels’s early formulations. “Street” crime is […]
Tony Platt
The Heart Just Insists: In Struggle with Elizabeth “Betita” Sutherland Martínez Tony Platt’s moving biographical sketch of Betita’s illustrious life, based on archival and personal sources. Elizabeth “Betita” Sutherland Martínez Citation: Social Justice Vol. 39, No. 2-3 (2012): 26-48
Tony Platt and Cecilia O’Leary, interviewers
Two Interviews with Ericka Huggins Ericka Huggins, an important leader of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and ongoing activist for nonviolent reconciliation, is interviewed about her political development, assessment of 1970s struggles, and views on the prison system. Also included is a conversation with historian Cecilia O’Leary about how she would like the BPP to […]
Tony Platt and Paul Takagi
Intellectuals for Law and Order: A Critique of the New “Realists” Originally published in 1977, this essay by Tony Platt and Paul Takagi charts the rise to dominance of a new “realist” agenda that championed the death penalty, longer sentences, “post-punishment incapacitation,” banishment, exile, house arrest, and other less imaginative weapons in the “war against […]
Tony Platt, interviewer
Interview with Angela Davis Interview with Angela Davis on the prison movement, political prisoners, women prisoners, reflections on her political past and her ongoing activism with Critical Resistance, a US-based anti-prison organization. interview, Angela Davis Citation: Social Justice Vol. 40, Nos. 1-2 (2013): 37-53