Category Archives: 2011 – Present

“Reimagining ‘Justice’ in Environmental Justice: Radical Ecologies, Decolonial Thought, and the Black Radical Tradition” by Laura Pulido and Juan De Lara, 2018

September 25, 2019 5:51 pm /
Submitted by: Suzanne Oboler, Professor, Latin American and Latinx Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
“In this article, we rethink the spatial and racial politics of the environmental justice movement in the United States by linking it to abolitionist theories that have emerged from the Black Radical Tradition, to critical theories of urban ecology, and to decolonial epistemologies rooted in the geopolitics of Las Americas. More specifically, we argue that environmental justice organizing among multi-racial groups is an extension of the Black Radical Tradition’s epistemic legacy and historical commitment to racial justice.”
This article was retrieved from the author’s website. It is open access. The article was published in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 2018, Vol. 1(1–2) 76–98
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“Trump Racist and Environmental Database” by Laura Pulido

September 25, 2019 4:23 pm /

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

To access the database, click here: “Trump Racist and Environmental Database” by Laura Pulido 

The author states: “In an effort to cope with the onset of the Trump administration, I began making lists of all the racist and anti-environmental things that were happening. I did this out of curiosity, but also to document the changes themselves. I began the process on my blog, but was not able to maintain it. In Winter 2018 I taught “Race, Nature & Power” (Geography 410/510) at the University of Oregon and took the opportunity to develop a class-based research project centered on the lists. Working together, we tried to identify all the racist things that happened in Trump’s first year and all the anti-environmental actions. We then analyzed the lists and studied how the two different agendas unfolded. On this page you can find the data itself, as well as the accompanying article that discusses the findings. The article, “Environmental Deregulation, Spectacular Racism and White Nationalism I the Trump Era,” is forthcoming in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

This information is posted at the author’s website and is in the public domain.

 

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“The Verde Paper: Latino Perspectives on Conservation Leadership Report by La Madre Tierra, 2016

September 24, 2019 7:07 pm /

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

“I like to say that I used to sell the fish, and now I save them. Growing up blocks from the US-Mexico border AND the Pacific Ocean has a way of staying with you. Looking back on this, it’s no surprise that I ended up working for an international seafood company at the start of my career. Despite not having grown up with specific dreams of becoming a fishmonger, this job farming Bluefin tuna in the open ocean offered exciting professional opportunities. Also on offer? A front row seat to the growing problem of overfishing. Scrambling daily to come up with hundreds of tons of fresh sardines to feed a dwindling number of Bluefin tuna tends to make a person question business as usual. When a study came out in 2006 predicting an almost empty ocean by the year 2048, I realized I needed to change course.”

This public domain paper was obtained from the organization’s website at: http://www.lamadretierra.org/wp-content/uploads/Verde-Paper-Latino-Perspectives-on-Conservation-Leadership.pdf

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The Movement for Black Lives: Platform, 2014

September 23, 2019 10:30 pm /

Submitted by: Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Professor, Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the Dept of Africana Studies at John Jay College

Click here for: Platform for Black Lives.

“The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) is a coalition of groups across the U.S. which represent the interests of black communities. It was formed in 2014 as a response to sustained and increasingly visible violence against black communities, with the purpose of creating a united front and establishing a political platform. The collective is made up of more than 150 organizations, with members such as the Black Lives Matter Network, the National Conference of Black Lawyers, and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and endorsement from groups including Color of Change, Race Forward, Brooklyn Movement Center, PolicyLink, Million Women March Cleveland, and ONE DC. In response to the sustained and increasingly visible violence against Black communities in the U.S. and globally, a collective of organizations representing thousands of Black people from across the country have come together with renewed energy and purpose to articulate a common vision and agenda. Our resistance and rebellion are not new, but like other times in history have come to a critical mass, and the bravery of those in Ferguson and across the country captured the attention of the world. A year ago, over 2,000 of us gathered in Cleveland to reflect on the state of our movement for liberation and celebrate our people, both those who have fallen and those who have survived. It was there that we began the process of uniting to articulate a shared vision of the world we want to live in.”

This link is to the organization’s website. It is in the public domain.

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“From Bars to Freedom: Prisoner Co-ops Boost Employment, Self-Esteem, and Support Reentry into Society” by Meegan Moriarity, 2016

September 23, 2019 7:47 pm /

Submitted by: Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Professor, Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the Dept of Africana Studies at John Jay College

Moriarity, Meegan. 2016. “From Bars to Freedom: Prisoner Co-ops Boost Employment, Self-Esteem, and Support Reentry into Society.” Rural Cooperatives Vol. 83 No. 1 (January-February), pp.14-18, 37. see pages 14-19 in this Rural Cooperatives issue.

To read online, click here: “From Bars to Freedom: Prisoner Co-ops Boost Employment, Self-Esteem, and Support Reentry into Society.”  Scroll to article on page 14.

From bars to freedom: prisoner co-ops boost employment, self-esteem and support re-entry into society: artists create, exhibit and sell their work through Cooperativa de Servidos ARIGOS in Puerto Rico. At the Shifting Gears bike shop in Stevens Point, Wis., skilled mechanics tune-up, refurbish and sell pre-owned bicycles while educating the community on biking’s beneficial impact on health and the environment. At the Cooperativa Alice in Milan, Italy, women create costumes for television and theater, design clothing and make uniforms for the local football team. Caterers and chefs feed customers at the Cafe Solberg in Gotenberg, Sweden. These business organizations may be diverse, but they have a few things in common. All of them are cooperatives. And all of them benefit prisoners or ex-prisoners.

This article was retrieved from a government website and is in the public domain.

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“Geographies of Race and Ethnicity II: Environmental Racism, Racial Capitalism and State-Sanctioned Violence” by Laura Pulido, 2017

August 20, 2019 5:54 pm /

Submitted by: Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Professor, Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the Dept. of Africana Studies at John Jay College

To read online, click here: Geographies of Race and Ethnicity II: Environmental Racism,Racial Capitalism and State-Sanctioned Violence

“In this report I argue that environmental racism is constituent of racial capitalism. While the environmental justice movement has been a success on many levels, there is compelling evidence that it has not succeeded in actually improving the environments of vulnerable communities. One reason for this is because we are not conceptualizing the problem correctly. I build my argument by first emphasizing the centrality of the production of social difference in creating value. Second, I review how the devaluation of nonwhite bodies has been incorporated into economic processes and advocate for extending such frameworks to include pollution. And lastly, I turn to the state. If, in fact, environmental racism is constituent of racial capitalism, then this suggests that activists and researchers should view the state as a site of contestation, rather than as an ally or neutral force.”

This is a library resource, accessed by using John Jay login to the library.

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“Five Questions” from the book UNAPOLOGETIC: A Black Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers, 2018

August 20, 2019 4:47 pm /

Submitted by: Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Professor, Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the Dept. of Africana Studies at John Jay College

This chapter is from the book: Carruthers, Charlene. 2018. Chapter 5 “Five Questions,” pp. 87-110. In UNAPOLOGETIC: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements. Beacon Press.

However, this book is not available in the John Jay Library. To read an interview with the author outlining the five questions click here: “Unapologetic”: Charlene Carruthers on Her Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements

“And so, the five questions begin with the question of “Who am I?” because if you don’t know who you are, what your self-interest is and what your best position to do, you can’t be as effective of an organizer as you could be.

The second question is Ella Baker’s question. Prolific organizer, Ella Baker would ask people the question, when she met them, “Who are your people?” And the answer to that question has so much to do with the work that you do, why you do it and why you show up.

The third is “What do we want?” We have to be clear about what we’re actually fighting for. Are we fighting for healthcare reform, or are we fighting for universal access to healthcare? And I believe that we have to actually make transformational demands, right? And universal healthcare just run by the state, in and of itself, isn’t transformational. I want to live in a world where people actually have, and communities have, self-determination over their lives.

The fourth question is “What are we building?” Are we building a 40-year strategy? Which we need. Are we building a year-long strategy? Are we engaged in electoral politics? Are we doing not—are we doing direct action, civil disobedience? All those things are necessary, but are we clear about what we’re building towards.

And the last question is “Are we ready to win?” And that question, to me, is one of the toughest ones, because what happens when we live in a world, which I believe is possible, without prisons and police, where safety goes beyond prisons and policing, and it’s in the hands, the hearts and the work of everyday people? Are we ready to win that? Are we doing the work that when we actually are able to govern ourselves and our communities, to provide healthcare, mental healthcare, deliver basic needs like food? And so, when I think about the work that we need to do—and I talk about it in the book—I’m really interested in how are we getting down on a 40-, 50-, 75-year strategy, and what are the things that we’re going to do along the way.”

The interview is open access. The book is copyrighted and available to purchase.

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“Community Policing and Community Justice” The 27th Annual Lloyd George Sealy Lecture, keynote address”, by Kenton Buckner, 2018

August 20, 2019 3:46 pm /

Submitted by: Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Professor, Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the Dept of Africana Studies at John Jay College

To view and listen online:  “Community Policing and Community Justice”

This keynote speech was presented by: The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) and the Department of Africana Studies, in partnership with the Lloyd George Sealy Library, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Moving Toward Community Justice in the 21st Century, The 27th Annual Lloyd George Sealy Lecture, Speaker: Kenton Buckner, Chief of Police, Little Rock Police Department. Chief Buckner is a “student of the law profession” who took the time to learn all areas of policing.

This MP3 speech was obtained from a John Jay faculty Dropbox and is open access.

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“The Impact of Neoliberalism on the Psychological Development of Low-Income Black Youth” by C. Jama Adams, 2014

August 15, 2019 3:48 pm /

Submitted by: Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Professor, Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the Dept of Africana Studies at John Jay College

Read online at: “The Impact of Neoliberalism on the Psychological Development of Low-Income Black Youth”

“This paper is a brief, psychoanalytically informed exploration of youth development, with a focus on the often-negative psychosocial impact of neoliberal ideologies on low-income Black youth. Neoliberal policies have influenced the psychological development of low-income Black youths, who are embedded in psychosocial contexts that are often under-resourced and negatively racialized. This substantially constrains their attempts to love and work. There is often a paucity of safe places, identity capital and caring tutors of the imagination that might facilitate good outcomes for these young people. As a consequence of being embedded in such emotionally austere and unsafe places, they often adopt postures that lead to their under-development and, too often, their early demise. The paper also discusses some strategies of resistance to neoliberal ideology and policy.”

Article published in Culture & Society (2014) 19, 39–46.  The library does not have access to this article. However, the author, C. Jama Adams, is faculty at John Jay and posted the article (author copy) at Research Gate. Free to use for educational purposes under the Fair Use provision of the Copyright Act.

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I Am Your Sister : Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, 2011

August 13, 2019 6:15 pm /

Submitted by:  Crystal Endsley, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Africana Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

To view online:  I Am Your Sister : Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde.

“Audre Lorde was an American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil rights activist. As a poet, she is best known for technical mastery and emotional expression, as well as her poems that express anger and outrage at civil and social injustices she observed throughout her life.  Her poems and prose largely deal with issues related to civil rights, feminism, lesbianism, and the exploration of black female identity.

In relation to non-intersectional feminism in the United States, Lorde famously said, “those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference – those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older – know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support.”

Not available in the Library. It is unpublished. Found on Internet at the MWASI website. MWASI is an afro-feminist collective that falls within the revolutionary liberation struggle movement. From site: “Our group is open only to black women and people assigned female at birth.”

Use for educational purposes under the Fair Use provision. 

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