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 RawlssA 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 Rawlss 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.

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.

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 Mexicos 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. Oyewumi, 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