Full Description
The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2020 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems.
Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), it offers recommendations for action by elected officials, policy makers, and the public around key issues for social justice, including a discussion of the role of key issues of sustainability and technology in the development and timbre of future social problems. It will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, advocates, and students interested in public sociology and the study of social problems.
Contents
Section I ‾ Ethnicity, Race, and Gender;
Islamophobia ‾ Aneesa A. Baboolal;
Latinos Are Each of Us: Fair and Just Immigration Policies for All ‾ Noreen M. Sugrue and Sylvia Puente;
Gender and Race in U.S. Family Law: Persistent Social Inequities and Rollback Reforms ‾ Bronwen Lichtenstein;
Section II ‾ Health and Families;
Reproductive Rights ‾ Sujatha A. Jesudason;
In Pursuit of Justice in U.S. Health Care Policy: Pathways to Universal Coverage ‾ Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda and Amelia Pittman;
The Problem of Unpaid Parental Leave ‾ Ronald E. Bulanda and Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda;
Section III ‾ Education;
Power, Privilege, and #MeToo in Academia ‾ Sarah Jane Brubaker and Brittany Keegan;
They Tested with Stress: Solving Racial Injustice in Assessment by Acknowledging Adverse Childhood Experiences ‾ Mawule A. Sevon and LaTrice L. Dowtin;
Black Girls and School Suspension ‾ Cherrell Green;
Section IV ‾ Crime and In(Justice);
Police Homicides: The Terror of 'American Exceptionalism' ‾ Robert Aponte and Hannah Hurrle
Crimmigration: The Presumption of Illegality and the Criminalization of Immigrants ‾ Kristen M. Budd and Bianca E. Bersani;
Alleviating the Mark of a Criminal Record: Prisoner Reentry and Post-Prison Employment ‾ Sadé L. Lindsay;
Section V ‾ Enduring Challenges;
The Persistence of Homelessness ‾ R. Neil Greene and Wayne Centrone;
Risks to Journalists' Safety and the Vulnerability of Media Freedom in the U.S. ‾ Sadia Jamil and Glenn W. Muschert;
Environmental Justice ‾ David Naguib Pellow;
Protecting and Rewarding Workers in the 21st Century ‾ Arne L. Kalleberg;
Looking Forward;
The Contested Construction of Social Problems ‾ Stephen Pfohl;
Afterword ‾ Michelle Christian
