Vol. 30, No. 2

A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order

War, Dissent, and Justice: A Dialogue with Scholars, Activists,
and (Former) U.S. Political Prisoners

Vol. 30, No. 2 (2003)

This issue of Social Justice, guest edited by Joy James (Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, Providence), is a dialogue among scholars, activists, and former U.S. political prisoners. Contributors discuss the prison-industrial complex, dissent against U.S. military interventions in the post-September 11 period, the war on youth in America, and racism in its institutional and movement manifestations. The issue is 152 pages long, with 23 unique contributions.

ISSN: 1043-1578. Published quarterly by Social Justice, P.O. Box 40601, San Francisco, CA 94140. SocialJust@aol.com.

Click at left for our order form.

Click here to purchase online:

Preface

Joy James, Guest Editor

Introduction: Academia, Activism, and Imprisoned Intellectuals

Joy James

I. BLACK LIBERATIONISTS

Coming of Age: A Black Revolutionary

Safiya Asya Bukhari

The Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal

Frank B. Wilderson, III

Race, Sexuality, and Political Struggle: Reading Soul on Ice

Jared Sexton

Commentary on Black Liberationists

Manuella Meyer

II. INTERNATIONALISTS AND ANTI-IMPERIALISTS

Agents of Repression: Withstanding the Test of Time

Ward Churchill

Fighting to Get Them Out

Laura Whitehorn

Commentary: Histories of Struggle and Resistance

J. Cyriac Mathew

III. PRISON REFORM AND ABOLITION

Zero Tolerance, Domestic Militarization, and the War Against Youth

Henry Giroux

"Social Truth" and Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals

Dylan Rodriguez

White Supremacy in the Movement Against the Prison-Industrial Complex

Liz Appel

Toward a New Civic Leadership: The Africana Criminal Justice Project

Geoff K. Ward and Manning Marable

Commentary: Social Death and the Relationship Between Abolition and Reform

Brady Heiner

IV. HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM

Introduction to Marilyn Buck's "Incommunicado"

Donna Willmott

Incommunicado: Dispatches from a Political Prisoner

Marilyn Buck

The Reality of Political Prisoners in the United States: What September 11 Taught Us About Defending Them

Jill Soffiyah Elijah

Nonviolent Peace Activism

Michele Naar-Obed

Legitimizing Empire: Racial and Gender Politics of the War on Terrorism

Usha Zacharias

Commentary: Internationalism and Post-September 11 Activism

Tsedeye Gebresela

V. CYBERSPACE IN PRISON: COMMUNICATION, COMMUNITY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Recovering, Amplifying, and Networking the Voices of the Disappeared -- Political Prisoners on Internet Media

Claude Marks and Rob McBride

Cyberspace: The "Color Line" of the 21st Century

Alejandro Molina

Commentary: Cyberspace in Prison

Sharon Luk