Author Archives: Oer Project Participants

“The Central Park Five”, Video by Ken Burns, 2012

April 15, 2019 5:38 pm /

Submitted by: Justice eReader Editorial Board

To view online, click here: The Central Park Five, Video by Ken Burns

In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, Ken Burns tells the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.

This is a library resource available, using a John Jay login.

Posted in: 2011 - Present, Part 2: Subjects and Topics in Justice (ALL), US / Tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

“What is Justice?: Classic and Contemporary Readings” by Robert C. Solomon and Mark C. Murphy, 1990

March 29, 2019 6:24 pm /

Submitted by:  Jamie Longazel, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

This book is not available online. However, it is available in the John Jay Library stacks at JC 578 .W47 1990. Since the publication of John Rawls’s monumental “A Theory of Justice” in 1971, justice has been increasingly prominent as a topic in social, political, and moral philosophy. Until now, however, no single collection has offered both classical sources and a concise overview of the current debate. This uniquely comprehensive anthology presents a wide range of writings on the concept of justice, bringing together substantial excerpts from the most important historical and classical texts–Homer, Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, the Quran–and selections from other and more recent work–Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Engels, Rawls, Nozick, Walzer, Nagel. The book is exceptionally broad in scope, representing an extensive variety of different viewpoints, and including such major topics as the historical origins of justice, social contract theory, the right to private property, the notion of community, the problem of punishment, and the concept of fairness. The first anthology devoted solely to the idea of justice–its current definitions and historical antecedents–this book will help readers make sense of this complex and vastly important topic.
This is a copyrighted book and is not available in the John Jay Library as an ebook. However, the book may be checked out of the library and is located at JC 578 .W47 1990.
Posted in: 1990-1999, Part 2: Subjects and Topics in Justice (ALL), US / Tagged: , , , ,

“Justice” by Michael Sandel: An Online Course Presented by Harvard University, 2019

March 29, 2019 6:17 pm /
Submitted by:  Jamie Longazel, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
To take course, click here: “Justice Course”: Harvard University (2019)
“Sandel explains theories of justice…with clarity and immediacy; the ideas of Aristotle, Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Robert Nozick and John Rawls have rarely, if ever, been set out as accessibly…. In terms we can all understand, ‘Justice’ confronts us with the concepts that lurk, so often unacknowledged, beneath our conflicts.”  (Jonathan Rauch, New York Times). This is an introduction to moral and political philosophy, offering an opportunity to discuss contemporary dilemmas and controversies. The course includes the following:
This course is available online as open access.
Posted in: 2011 - Present, Part 2: Subjects and Topics in Justice (ALL), US / Tagged: , , ,

“La Migra” Poem by Pat Mora, 2003

March 29, 2019 3:54 pm /

Submitted by:  Suzanne Oboler, Professor, Latin American and Latinx Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

To view online, click here:  “La Migra” Poem by Pat Mora

This is a poem about the Border Patrol hunting down immigrants on the border.

This is open source per the website “About LiveJournal.”

Posted in: 2000 - 2010, Part 2: Subjects and Topics in Justice (ALL), US / Tagged: , , , ,

“I Hate to Bother You” Poem by Eduardo Galeano, 2009

March 29, 2019 3:39 pm /

Submitted by:  Suzanne Oboler, Professor, Latin American and Latinx Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

To read online, click here: “I Hate to Bother You” Poem by Eduardo Galeano

One of Latin America’s most cherished and admired literary figures, Eduardo Galeano was an Uruguayan author, who raised his voice incessantly for human rights and social justice. He was a severe critic of globalization and highlighted the dehumanizing facets of globalization in the contemporary world. One of South America’s most renowned writers, he was an ambassador of Latin American history and provided the world an insight into their culture, heritage and struggles, through his passionate and honest writing.

Poem available at the website, Dissident Voice, which is an Internet newsletter “dedicated to challenging the distortions and lies of the corporate press and the privileged classes it serves.” Website is copyrighted, but content is available to the public. Use for educational purposes under the Fair Use provision. Give credit to author..

Posted in: 2000 - 2010, Latin America & the Caribbean, Part 2: Subjects and Topics in Justice (ALL) / Tagged: , , , ,

“Aguacero” performed at Young Lords 40th Anniversary Celebration by Sandra Maria Esteves, 2009

March 29, 2019 3:25 pm /

Submitted by:  Suzanne Oboler, Professor, Latin American and Latinx Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

For poem, click here: “Aguacero” performed at Young Lords 40th Anniversary Celebration by Sandra Maria Esteves

This poem was performed by the poet to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the revolutionary community organizing group the Young Lords. The group called for self-determination for all Puerto Ricans, community control of institutions and land, freedom for all political prisoners and the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam, Puerto Rico and other areas. The Young Lords would also play a pivotal role in spreading awareness of Puerto Rican culture and history, leaving a legacy still felt today. 

This poem is found at the democracynow.org website. It is OER and is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Posted in: 2000 - 2010, Part 2: Subjects and Topics in Justice (ALL), US / Tagged: , , , , ,

“Detained in the Desert”: A Play by Josefina Lopez, 2011

March 15, 2019 8:08 pm /

Submitted by:  Suzanne Oboler, Professor, Latin American and Latinx Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Click here to read online: “Detained in the Desert”: A Play by Josefina Lopez, 2011

“This text is very timely. It covers racial profiling of Latinxs due to Arizona’s “papers please” law (SB 1070); migrant deaths; the criminalization of humanitarian aid; hate speech and right-wing talk shows (there is a character based on Lou Dobbs); anti-immigrant and anti-Latinx violence; religious redemption; self-transformation; ghosts.” (Comment by Oboler, 2019)

“Detained in the desert” is a satirical look at the anti-immigrant laws that brings together two completely different people on opposite ends of the immigration debate through a karmic debt that must be paid. Detained in the Desert received its world premiere in Los Angeles, California, at CASA 0101 (October 1-November 21, 2010), located in the heart of Boyle Heights, where Josefina Lopez herself grew up. The play’s story pivots around two people detained in the desert, how they got there, and the impact the experience has on their thinking about immigration and the role they both occupy within the specific political landscape of Arizona. Significantly, Lopez wrote this play during a time of national conflict so as to prevent herself from falling into a state of despair and to lend her voice to the struggle of those in Arizona working against the rhetoric of hate that has come to permeate the cultural landscape, from the legislature to the media. To write this play, Lopez conducted research that included following the evolution of SB 1070, listening to talk radio, and studying performed struggles at the U. S. Arizona-Mexico border between humanitarian activists and vigilante Minutemen types, the latter known to aggressively follow and sabotage the efforts of groups such as Border Angels by targeting for shooting practice the containers of water they leave throughout the desert for desperate crossers.

The play was found in Chicana/Latina Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Spring 2011), pp. 128-195 (68 pages). The play is from the book Detained in the Desert and Other Plays, WPR Publishing, 2011. Copyrighted, but available through the library using John Jay login.

Posted in: 2011 - Present, Part 2: Subjects and Topics in Justice (ALL), US / Tagged: , , , , ,

Pa’lante! Documentary Film by Iris Morales, 2011

March 15, 2019 4:25 pm /

Submitted by:  Suzanne Oboler, Professor, Latin American and Latinx Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

To view clip, click here: Pa’lante! Documentary Film by Iris Morales, 2011

This is just a short clip. The entire video has to be purchased. This documentary is still the best documentary on the Young Lords by one of its participants. In the midst of the African American liberation struggle, protests to end the Vietnam War and the women’s movement for equality, Puerto Rican and Latinx communities fought for economic, racial and social justice.

The entire documentary is copyrighted and has to be purchased. However, the library has a VHS copy in the Media Collection Reserve (VHS-1637).

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“Cloud Cover Caribbean” by Ana Lydia Vega, 1990

March 14, 2019 7:34 pm /

Submitted by:  Suzanne Oboler, Professor, Latin American and Latinx Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

The short story, “Cloud Cover Caribbean” is in Celia Correa de Zapata (ed). Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real. Texas: Arte Público Press. 1990 pp 202 – 207.   For each of these would-be immigrants to Florida, the United States is the promised land. Like many refugees before them, they risk their lives on a fragile boat with inadequate supplies in hopes of making a new life.sion. This is a short story in a book by Latin-American women.

Copyrighted. Only available in print in library in the Stacks (PQ 7085 .S48 1990 ); no digital format. 

Posted in: 1990-1999, Part 2: Subjects and Topics in Justice (ALL), US / Tagged: , , , , ,

“Struggles for Justice in Latin America” by Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley, 2003

March 14, 2019 7:04 pm /

Submitted by:  Suzanne Oboler, Professor, Latin American and Latinx Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

To read online, click here: “Struggles for Justice in Latin America”

From the book by Eckstein S. & Wickham-Crowley T. (Eds.), What Justice? Whose Justice?: Fighting for Fairness in Latin America (pp. 1-32). Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 2003.  The book discusses “for whom is life just, how so, and why? And what is being done to correct persisting injustices?” Blending macro-level global and national analysis with in-depth grassroots detail, the contributors highlight roots of injustices, how they are perceived, and efforts to alleviate them.

This is a chapter in a copyrighted book.  However, it is a library resource available as an ebook, but for only one reader at a time.

Posted in: 2000 - 2010, Latin America & the Caribbean, Part 2: Subjects and Topics in Justice (ALL) / Tagged: , , , ,
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