Collaborations for Social Justice: Professionals, Publics and Policy Change

edited by

Andrew L. Barlow

Rowman and Littlefield 2007

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction (4 pp)

Chapter 1 Andrew L. Barlow, “Transformative Collaborations: Professionals and Minority Community Power” (55 pp)

Chapter 2 Anamaria Loya ”Creating a New World: Transformative Lawyering for Social Change” (43 pp)

Chapter 3 Michelle Renée, Jeannie Oakes, John Rogers and Gary Blasi “Organizing Education: Academic Research and Community Organizing for Social Reform” (37 pp)

Chapter 4: Manuel Pastor, Rachel Morello-Frosch and James L. Sadd, “LULUs of the Field: Research and Activism for Environmental Justice”

(35 pp)

Chapter 5: Howard Pinderhughes, “The Production of Knowledge and Community Empowerment: Organizing and Research on Youth Violence”

(27 pp)

Chapter 6: Michael Burawoy “Private Troubles and Public Issues” (13 pp)

About the Authors:

Andrew Barlow teaches sociology at Diablo Valley College and the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Between Fear and Hope: Globalization and Race in the United States. A long-time civil rights activist, Dr. Barlow has participated in the campaigns to prevent passage of anti-civil rights ballot initiatives in California. He co-authored an amicus brief in a school integration case before the U.S. Supreme Court, and has testified as expert witness in race discrimination cases in California courts. Barlow is on the Board of Directors of La Raza Centro Legal in San Francisco.

 Gary Blasi joined the UCLA law faculty with a distinguished 20-year record of public interest practice. He specializes in advocacy on behalf of children in substandard schools, homeless families and individuals, low income tenants, low wage workers, and victims of discrimination. He also serves as the Acting Director of the UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations, which supports research and education on issues critical to working people.

Michael Burawoy teaches sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. After many years of participating in and studying industrial workplaces with a view to changing sociology, he is now studying the academic workplace in order to understand how sociology can further the transformation of society. With this end in mind he has promoted public sociologies in all corners of the globe -- public sociologies that bring sociologists into dialogue with diverse publics, thereby linking private troubles to political issues, a precondition for the success of projects for social justice. Burawoy was President of the American Sociological Association in 2004.

Anamaria Loya is Executive Director of La Raza Centro Legal in San Francisco, a Latino community organization that combines legal advocacy with community organizing and leadership training and development.

Rachel Morello-Frosch is the Carney Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and the Department of Community Health at Brown University Medical School.  She has published widely on environmental justice and environmental health inequalities.  She is also the co-founder of the Environmental Leadership Program, a nationally renowned 2-year fellowship program and non-profit center for environmental leadership and professional development, and sits on the scientific advisory board of Breast Cancer Action in San Francisco.

Jeannie Oakes is Presidential Professor in Educational Equity and Director of UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education & Access (IDEA) and the University of California’s All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity (ACCORD).   Oakes’ research focuses on schooling inequalities and follows the progress of educators and activists seeking socially just schools.  Oakes and John Rogers are co-authors of Learning Power:  Organizing for Education and Justice (Teachers College Press, 2006), which reports on students, parents, teachers, and grassroots groups struggling for more socially just schools. 

 Manuel Pastor is Professor of Geography and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC).  His research has generally focused on the labor market and social conditions facing low-income urban communities; his most recent book, co-authored with Chris Benner and Laura Leete, is Staircases or Treadmills: Labor Market Intermediaries and Economic Opportunity in a Changing Economy (Russell Sage, 2007).  He has a long history of collaboration with environmental and social justice organizations on a variety of research and policy efforts such as efforts to promote environmental integrity, living wages, and more equitable development.

 Howard Pinderhughes  is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of Race in the Hood: Conflict and Violence Among Urban Youth, a study of racial attitudes and racial violence among youth in New York City.  Dr. Pinderhughes has worked for the last fifteen years with community based organizations and schools in San Francisco's Mission District and Bay View Hunter's Point neighborhoods, conducting community based research on youth violence, gang violence and adolescent relationship violence, as well as providing training, workshops and assistance in program development in the areas of adolescent violence prevention and intervention, and race relations among youth.

 Michelle Renée is a post-doctoral fellow at UCLA’s Institute for Democracy Education & Access.  Her dissertation, Knowledge, Power and Education Justice:  How Social Movement Organizations use Research to Influence Education Policy investigated the increased activism of education justice organizations that represent low-income communities and communities of color in the California education policy process. Prior to entering academe, Dr. Renée worked as a legislative assistant in the United States Congress. She has her roots in student organizing, and was one of the co-founders of the Sierra Student Coalition-the student arm of the Sierra Club, and has been a part of numerous community organizations.

John Rogers is an Assistant Professor in UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and the Co-Director of UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access (IDEA).   Rogers studies strategies for engaging urban youth, community members, and educators in equity-focused school reform.   Since 1999, Rogers has led a summer seminar for urban youth in critical sociology.  He also has directed a seminar in participatory research for members of grassroots community groups.  Rogers is co-author (with Jeannie Oakes) of Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice.

James L. Sadd, is Professor of Environmental Science at Occidental College in Los Angeles. His research interests and experience include spatial analysis and digital mapping using geographic information systems (GIS) and image analysis software, and are focused on quantitative analysis of environmental justice issues.  He is active in environmental justice issues in the southern California area, presently serving as a member of the Green LA Cumulative Impacts Working Group, providing recommendations to the office of the Mayor of Los Angeles to support his efforts to improve health in low income communities of color.

Between Fear and Hope: Globalization and Race in the United States

by

 Andrew L. Barlow

Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003

 Orders are now being taken at:

Between Fear and Hope (Rowman & Littlefield, Inc.)

Globalization is transforming societies everywhere in paradoxical and contradictory ways. This book examines globalization’s impact on race in the United States since the mid-1970s. On one hand, globalization is creating conditions that support intensified efforts to claim white privileges. But globalization also creates new possibilities for anti-racist movements, and thus the potential to undermine racial privileges. Globalization is thus transforming the terrain of all racial projects in the United States.

The book is divided into three parts. The first part provides a backdrop, exploring conceptual and methodological issues involved in the study of globalization and race, and examining the emergence of a new form of structured racism in the 1950s. The second part provides a detailed analysis of globalization’s impact on the United States since the late 1970s, and examines specific ways that claims to white privileges are being mobilized today. The third part analyzes the newly emerging space for anti-racist projects opened up by globalization.

This book is an original contribution to the study of race. It provides a structural analysis of race, and a methodology for connecting global to national and local racial processes. Written in a lively and down to earth style, this book is a call to action in a time of fear and hope.

                        Table of Contents

 Part I: The Backdrop

 Chapter 1: Rediscovering Racism in the United States: Theoretical Challenges

Chapter 2: The Best and the Whitest: Racism and the Middle Class Social Order (1945-1975)

Part II: Globalization and Racism

Chapter 3: Market Globalization and Social Crisis

Chapter 4: It’s ‘Ours’: Globalization and The Racialization of Space

 Chapter 5: It’s ‘Mine’: Globalization, the Erosion of Social Responsibility, and Racism

Part III: Globalization and the Search for Racial Justice in the U.S.

Chapter 6: The Possible Futures of Racial Justice in the Global Era

Chapter 7: Globalization and the Revitalization of the Civil Rights Movement

Conclusion: Finding Hope in a Time of Fear

Andrew L. Barlow, a long-time civil rights activist, is Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, and Professor of Sociology at Diablo Valley College.