You Can't Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement by Greta de Jong

2017 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 747-749
Author(s):  
Evan Faulkenbury
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement

Social Justice

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet L. Finn ◽  
Maxine Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
21St Century ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
Work History ◽  
Core Value ◽  
Social Work History

This entry examines the concept of social justice and its significance as a core value of social work. Diverse conceptualizations of social justice and their historical and philosophical underpinnings are examined. The influence of John Rawls' perspectives on social justice is addressed as are alternative conceptualizations, such as the capabilities perspective. The roots of social justice are traced through social work history, from the Settlement House Movement to the Rank and Film Movement, Civil Rights Movement, and contemporary struggles in the context of globalization. Challenges for social justice-oriented practice in the 21st century are address. The discussion concludes with concrete example of ways in which social workers are translating principles of social justice into concrete practices.

scholarly journals Examining Race Privilege in America: The Preservation of Whiteness through the Systematic Oppression of African-Americans

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-125
Author(s):  
Justin Selner
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Education System ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Post Civil Rights

The prevailing assumption that race-relations have equalized in America is largely based on an incorrect and misinformed understanding of current socio-economic policies and public behaviors. The continued racialization and discrimination towards African-Americans may be linked to strategic efforts that seek to preserve the dominance and authority of whiteness. This paper examines such claims within the context of the post civil rights movement, with specific attention given to the media, education system, and implementations of social justice.

How the Civil Rights Movement and Litigation Advanced Other Movements for Social Justice

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Residential Treatment ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Lgbt Rights ◽  
Public Facilities

Part 4 describes how many of us who cut our teeth on race-based litigation subsequently used the same tools to reform prisons, mental health hospitals, and other public facilities. Part 4 includes chapter 12, “Constitutional Race-Based Litigation and the Friendly Judicial Climate Lead to Other Areas of Constitutional Litigation”; chapter 13, “How the Civil Rights Movement and Litigation Informed Other Movements for Social Justice”; and chapter 14, “Framing the Contemporary Dialogue of Race.” The courts of the time did not shrink from establishing minimal constitutional standards for prisons and hospitals. Wyatt v. Stickney established the national precedent for residential treatment of mental health. The Prison Project brought constitutional standards to Parchman Prison. Race-based litigation also informed later social movements, such as the women’s movement and the movement for LGBT rights. The anthology concludes with two authors’ assessments of where we are now in framing the discussion of race and white supremacy. Barbara Phillips explores the challenges of what we call “diversity.” Larry Menefee explores Jacquelyn Hall Dowd’s thesis concerning the restricted view of the civil rights movement.

Mathematics, Multicultural Education, and Professional Development

1997 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 680-696
Author(s):  
Christine E. Sleeter
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
The Past ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Way

Multicultural education grew out of the civil rights movement and, as such, is grounded in a vision of democracy, social justice, pluralism, and equality—ideals that have yet to be realized in U.S. society and its schools. For the past 25 years, multicultural education has served as a mobilizing focus for struggles to articulate visions of schooling that are consistent with the ideals of the U.S. and for the development of theory and research that offer a countervision to the way that schooling is usually conducted, particularly for children from historically marginalized groups. As this body of theory and research has grown so also have the implications for restructuring various dimensions of the education enterprise. Mathematics is one such dimension and is the focus of this article. First, however, I contextualize the discussion that follows within a vision of what multicultural education means.

How Much Has America Changed in 50 Years?

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Brief
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Organizational Psychology ◽  
Civil Rights Act ◽  
Social Justice Research ◽  
Attitudinal Data ◽  
Psychology Perspective ◽  
Made In

This chapter examines the extent to which social justice in America has progressed since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from an organizational psychology perspective. In particular, it evaluates the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in relation to the progress Blacks have and have not made in the last five decades. It first considers the progress brought by the civil rights movement and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 based on attitudinal data and employment statistics. It then reviews the literature on organizational psychology and social justice, suggesting that America has achieved much when it comes to social justice but still has a long way to go. It proposes what an organizational psychologist’s social justice research agenda should look like, with emphasis on the need to more fully recognize the roles played by stereotypes and prejudices in employment discrimination. The article concludes with a few personal observations from the author.

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