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 […]
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J. Patrice McSherry
The Víctor Jara Case and the Long Struggle against Impunity in Chile The judicial case concerning the 1973 torture and murder of Víctor Jara, beloved Chilean singer-songwriter and pioneer of Chile’s New Song movement, has continued for almost 40 years. Víctor Jara was a celebrated musician, theater director, and composer. His songs spoke stirringly of […]
J.C. Malone
Riding the Non-Stop Immigration Roller Coaster (A True Story) J. C. Malone offers an experience-based story by a professional journalist and writer who recently emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Michigan. This poignant tale of his job-search odyssey is a testament to the human toll of the process, caused by anti-immigrant sentiments in the receiving […]
Jack Hirschman, Mali McGee, Diane Wang, and Sarah Menefee
Poetry in Honor of Ken Saro-Wiwa Poetry honoring Nigerian activist who was killed by the Nigerian government on November 10, 1995. poetry Citation: Social Justice Vol. 23, No. 4 (1996): 9-13
Jacqueline Cabasso and Patrice Sutton
Nuclear Weapons: Now and Forever? The Role of Laboratory-Based Testing in Maintaining Nuclear Weapons Department of Energy plans to spend ever more billions of dollars to construct and operate a system of new high-tech laboratory facilities to preserve its capacity to maintain test modify design and produce new nuclear weapons with or without underground tests […]
Jaime Osorio
The Latin American Debate: Dependent Capitalism, Superexploitation, and Revolution Latin America occupies a conflictive place within the universal discourse constructed by capitalist modernity. The region and its processes question and deny that universality, something that requires a way of thinking that can explain that negation. With that objective in mind, the author analyzes different moments […]
Jaime Osorio
Super-Exploitation, and Dependency: Notes on The Dialectics of Dependency With the publication of Dialéctica de ladependencia (The Dialectics of Dependency) by Ruy Mauro Marini, Latin American social theory was able to culminate a great effort in the interest of formulating a theory of dependent capitalism and the laws by which it is reproduced. At the […]
James F. Doyle
A Radical Critique of Criminal Punishment James F. Doyle presents a radical philosophical critique of punishment. He draws a contrast between the “ethics of obligation” and the “ethics of social relations” as radically different normative approaches to law and criminal punishment. As Doyle makes clear, the ethics of obligation informs current criminal justice punishment strategies, […]
Janet Gottschalk
Cairo to Beijing: Disaster Averted? Janet Gottschalk’s article traces steps in “the long and difficult journey toward a world of equality development and peace” and describes the events leading up to and the outcome of the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995. Gottschalk’s perspective echoes the theme of a […]
Jason Vick
“Putting Cruelty First”: Liberal Penal Reform and the Rise of the Carceral State Why are so many people in prison today? How do we make sense, more generally, of the fact that all the world’s liberal democracies rely on incarceration as an essential tool of punishment? Specifically, why is it that the discourses and practices […]
Jean Ishibashi
Foreword to ‘Reconfiguring Power’ Introductory Foreword Citation: Social Justice Vol. 24, No. 2 (1997): 1-5
Jeremy Colwill
From Nuremberg to Bosnia: War Crimes Trials in the Modern Era Jeremy Colwill discusses the Hague Intemational Tribunal that was established by the U.N. in 1993 to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide committed in the former Yugoslavia. To date, investigations have resulted in the leveling of charges against 22 ethnic Serbs. According […]
Jermaine Ashley, Dawn Samaniego, and Lian Cheun
How Oakland Turns Its Back on Teens: A Youth Perspective Jermaine Ashley, Dawn Samaniego, and Lian Cheun describe how Youth for Oakland United, the site of another of their pilot projects, is working for positive alternatives to crime and incarceration. Speaking of the critical need for safe common spaces for teens and citing preventative measures […]
Jerome Washington
A Bright Spot in the Yard poem poetry Citation: Social Justice Vol. 18, No. 3 (1991): 266-267
Jim Thomas and Sharon Boehlefeld
Rethinking Abolitionism: “What Do We Do with Henry?” Review of de Haan, The Politics of Redress In their review of Willem de Haan’s book, the authors assess the sad state of affairs concerning the penal question and discuss the merits and prospects for penal abolition. Whatever its flaws, the authors argue, abolitionism has value in […]
Joanne Clark
Snapshots of Monroe Reformatory poem poetry Citation: Social Justice Vol. 18, No. 3 (1991): 264-264