{"id":366,"date":"2019-09-09T15:36:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T19:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nlg.org\/nlg-review\/?post_type=article&p=366"},"modified":"2019-09-10T16:37:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T20:37:39","slug":"editors-preface-vol-76-no-1-spring-2019","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.nlg.org\/nlg-review\/article\/editors-preface-vol-76-no-1-spring-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor’s Preface: Vol. 76, No. 1 (Spring 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meredith Osborne, Editor-in-Chief<\/em><\/p>\n

Our children\u2019s schools are nearly, if not completely, as segregated as they were in the 1960s. It\u2019s no surprise, then, that for children of color grade school can be an introduction to the carceral state. Just take a peek into the local youth offender de\u00adtention center in any major U.S. city and you\u2019ll see that the school-to-prison pipeline is a readily observable phenomenon. We can change this.<\/p>\n

In \u201cArrested at the Schoolhouse Gate,\u201d Noelia Rivera-Calder\u00f3n explains that to end the incarceration of minority children it is essential to end school \u201cdisturbance\u201d laws, which have allowed teachers to bring police into the classroom and hale \u201cdisrup\u00adtive\u201d children off to jail. The consequences for our youth, including the generational inequities stemming from such oppression, are striking.<\/p>\n

But uniformed school discipline is just the beginning. As Meikhel Philogene de\u00adtails in \u201cWhy the Black Man is Really Gray,\u201d there are other contributing forms of oppression that have fed the crisis of mass incarceration in this country. He focuses on the racism inherent in central aspects of the criminal justice system: access to justice, predatory capitalism, and systemic bias. Philogene also spells out how an underrepresentation of minorities in positions of power within the sports and enter\u00adtainment industries has perpetuated a system of inequality and racism.<\/p>\n

In recent years, these myriad forms of oppression have spawned new, popular resistance and solidarity movements nationwide. Within these groups, movements aligning along racial and ethnic lines are aiming for social, racial, and environmental justice. In \u201cIdentity Extremism,\u201d Natsu Taylor Saito explains that our government has been paying close attention to these movements. Indeed, the State has conflated popular struggle for freedom with malicious radicalism and danger. Unsurprisingly, it has responded with surveillance, criminalization, and violence. Saito goes on to argue that the State has wielded its coercive power to pressure activists into forsaking their racial and ethnic identities in exchange for a tokenish sort of equality. Saito, in prose that ascends to eloquence, demonstrates, that the path toward genuine libera\u00adtion requires an insistence on self-determination and, however arduous, we should never give up the fight.<\/p>\n

Our issue closes with David Gespass\u2019s review of two essential, recently released books on the controversy, reignited in the age of Trump, regarding freedom of ex\u00adpression on college campuses: Free Speech on Campus<\/em> by Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman and Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censor\u00adship<\/em>, by Nadine Strossen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meredith Osborne, Editor-in-Chief Our children\u2019s schools are nearly, if not completely, as segregated as they were in the 1960s. It\u2019s no surprise, then, that for children of color grade school can be an introduction to the carceral state. Just take a peek into the local youth offender de\u00adtention center in any major U.S. city and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":52,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"issuem_issue":[121],"class_list":["post-366","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","issuem_issue-nlg-review-vol-76-no-1-spring-2019","post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t