Justice Unbound: Voices of Justice for the 21st Century

This important anthology provides students and teachers with voices of social and global justice that have been marginalized or forgotten by history. It gives thought-leaders, from the Global South a platform and engages the voices of oppressed communities, including Charles Mills and Franz Fanon and Ella Baker. This text is a comprehensive analysis of modern and contemporary theories of justice. Since the publication in 1971 of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice, there has been much debate on his views from both the right and the left of the political spectrum. But there is a lack of textbooks that provide not only a compilation of substantial selections on challenges to Rawls’s theory from feminist and postcolonial scholars but that also include writings by non-white and non-Western authors on different aspects of justice. This book fills this huge gap and brings together many influential writings on the topic of justice that are often omitted in philosophy and political theory collections. This work addresses complex issues in an increasingly diverse society.

Table of Contents:
Preface by Charles W. Mills Acknowledgments Permissions Note Introduction Section I: From the State of Nature to Society: The Social Contract and its Critics John Locke, “Freedom and Property” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Freedom and Equality” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” John Rawls, “Two Principles of Justice” Carole Pateman, “The Sexual Contract” Carole Pateman, “Concent” Charles W. Mills, “The Racial Contract and Ideal Theory” CASE STUDY: J. M. Dieterle, “Food Deserts and Lockean Property” CASE STUDY: Ronald M. Green, “Health Care and Justice in Contract Theory Perspective” Section II: Racial and Gender Justice: The Quest for Civil Rights Maria Stewart, ‘Lecture at Franklin Hall’ Frederick Douglass, ‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July’? Ida B Wells, ‘A Red Record’ Ida B Wells, ‘Lynch Law in America’ W E B Du Bois, ‘How Does It Feel to Be a Problem’? W E B Du Bois, ‘The Souls of White Folk’ James Baldwin, ‘Letter to My Nephew’ Ella Baker, ‘Address at the Hattiesburg Freedom Day Rally’ CASE STUDY: Eduardo Bonilla- Silva, ‘ “Keeping Them in Their Place”: The Social Control of Blacks since the 1960s’ CASE STUDY: Edwidge Danticat, ‘Message to My Daughters’ Section III: Economic Justice and Social Welfare Karl Marx, ‘The Power of Money’ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ‘Communism’ Karl Marx, ‘Capitalism and Exploitation’ Edward Bellamy, ‘Looking Backward’ Jane Addams, ‘Democracy and Charity’ Eduardo Bonilla- Silva, ‘Racial Economic Inequality’ CASE STUDY: Barry Estabrook, ‘Politics of the Plate: The Price of Tomatoes’ CASE STUDY: Eric Schlosser, ‘The Most Dangerous Job’ CASE STUDY: Josiah Heyman and Merlyn Heyman, ‘Occupy in a Border City: El Paso, Texas, U.S.A.’ Section IV: Environmental Justice: Confronting Racism and Imperialism Robert D Bullard, ‘Anatomy of Environmental Racism and the Environmental Justice Movement’ James Cone, ‘Whose Earth Is It Anyway’? Peter S Wenz, ‘Just Garbage’ CASE STUDY: Diane- Michele Prindeville, ‘For the People: American Indian and Hispanic Women in New Mexico’s Environmental Justice Movement’ CASE STUDY: Robert Melchior Figueroa, ‘Other Faces: Latinos and Environmental Justice’ CASE STUDY: Elizabeth Hoover et al. ‘Indigenous Peoples of North America: Environmental Exposures and Reproductive Justice’ Section V: Global Justice: Confronting Colonialism and Imperialism Walter D Mignolo, ‘Philosophy and the Colonial Difference’ Dipesh Chakrabarty, ‘The Idea of Provincializing Europe’ Aime Cesaire, ‘Discourse on Colonialism’ Frantz Fanon, ‘The Black Man and Language’ Frantz Fanon, ‘On National Culture’ Edward Said, ‘Orientalism’ Oyeronke´. Oye?wumi, ‘Colonizing Bodies and Minds: Gender and Colonialism’ Rajeev Bhargava, ‘Reparations for Cultural Injustice’ CASE STUDY: Kinhide Mushakoji, ‘The Case of the “Comfort Women”: Sexual Slavery by the Japanese Military’ CASE STUDY: Ofelia Schutte, ‘Resistance to Colonialism: The Latin American Legacy of Jose Marti’ Section VI: Transitional and Restorative Justice: Working Towards a Just World Jennifer Llewellyn, ‘Truth Commissions through a Restorative Lens’ Louise Mallinder, ‘Amnesties in the Pursuit of Reconciliation, Peacebuilding and Restorative Justice’ CASE STUDY: Chris Cuneen, ‘When Does Transitional Justice Begin and End? Colonised Peoples, Liberal Democracies and Restorative Justice’ CASE STUDY: Hon Joan Gottschall and Molly Armour, Rethinking the War on Drugs: What Insights Does Restorative Justice Offer? Glossary Index

About the Author :
Patrizia Longo is Professor of Politics at Saint Mary's College of California. She is an expert on gender politics and issues of social justice, particularly affecting women, in the U.S. and internationally. Her research also includes gender discrimination in the field of medicine, such as the glass ceiling for female surgeons, and human rights and labor equity issues revolving around immigrant women.

Review :
Longo successfully brings together the work of a diverse array of feminist and postcolonial scholars whose writings challenge Rawls. In this era of Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and the Occupy movement, there is a pressing need for a textbook to help students navigate and understand the barriers to justice and how they may be dismantled. Justice Unbound provides that.