Social Justice: Arguments and Stances

From CQ Researcher.
Amid a tense moment in racial relations, an ambitious — and controversial — journalistic endeavor known as The 1619 Project places slavery at the center of U.S. history.

This article provides definitions for cancel culture as well as context.

This article goes through the consequences and calls for the canceling of cancel culture.

Pellow suggests how Critical Environmental Justice (CEJ) Studies can theorize the relationship between race, other social categories, and the environment. In the article, he: (1) adopts a multi-disciplinary approach that draws on critical race theory, political ecology, ecofeminist theory, and anarchist theory, and (2) focuses on Black Lives Matter and the problem of state violence.

Article from October 2020 in CQ Researcher.

Racial profiling is a form of racism in which police officers or security officials use race, ethnicity or national origin to identify a suspect or potential suspect when stopping and searching people. It is based on the perception that an individual of one race or ethnicity is more likely to engage in misconduct than an individual of another race or ethnicity. Predictive policing is the practice of using algorithms to predict crimes before they happen. Such data-driven policing can be used to track crimes and spot patterns.

The Supreme Court decision on Mckesson's case.

A discussion of the First Amendment, Federal Law, and the NFL.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to free speech. This can include but is not limited to student speech, online speech, and protests. The Supreme Court has often been called upon to interpret the constitutional limits of freedom of speech.

Racism has been a problem in many societies. Use this database to find information about current debates, viewpoints, timelines, and other content about racism.

The survey of nearly 1,400 North Carolinians conducted March 30 through April 2 found modest shifts in opinions since the Elon Poll surveyed about the monuments in 2019.

Dissertation/Thesis on the benefits and struggles of anti-hate laws through an examination of hate-crime laws. The author follows this with an examination of the racial disparity in hate-crime arrests as an unintended consequence of these laws.

Hate Crime is high profile now. But the cases of violent hate crime we see in the media are just the tip of the iceberg: things like verbal abuse, bullying, threats, and damage to property have become just another part of everyday life for many people. This film, featuring one of the UK’s leading hate crime researchers, Professor Neil Chakraborti, looks at what hate crime is, how it can be measured and why popular media stereotypes of typical hate offenders are so misleading.