Racial Justice
180 Articles
The End of Black History Month? Attacks on Teaching the History of Racism Enable its Entrenchment
Professor Charles Henry draws lessons from his own history on the future of America - from battles over the building of schools for Black children to current efforts to ban "uncomfortable"…
80 Years Later, Preventing Another Executive Order 9066 Requires Recognizing Its Lessons
Japanese American incarceration and subsequent redress campaign offer timely lessons for U.S. public and policymakers.
Books Bans and Censored Curricula Won’t Change History – or the Racism We Still Live With
A powerful family story of incarceration under Executive Order 9066 shows how the past is very much present.
Combating Anti-Asian Violence through UN Human Rights Mechanisms
The prospect of complaints against States parties should spur more effective responses to anti-Asian attacks and other structural racial discrimination.
80 Years After Executive Order 9066, the Supreme Court Still Shuts Its Eyes to Reality
The myth of facial neutrality ignores how racism and other prejudices shape national security policy.
Introduction to Just Security’s Series on Executive Order 9066, 80 Years After Signing
A collection of Just Security essays reflect on national security policy past and present, 80 years after Order that led to mass incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Why Ending the Justice Department’s “China Initiative” is Vital to U.S. Security
The reverberating effects within the scientific community threaten to undermine the primacy of US science and technology at a crucial time.
Democracy, Rule of Law, Justice: Lessons from 2021 for the Year Ahead?
A curated selection of Just Security articles offers insights for 2022 on issues of racial justice, democracy and the rule of law, diplomacy, foreign policy, and more.
On International Migrants Day, Reimagining Migration Beyond Imperialism, Militarism, and Racism
A clarion call for redemptive migration policy.
Preliminary but Necessary: The Question of the Applicability of the Notion of Apartheid to Occupied Territory
Does the prohibition of apartheid apply to occupied territory? Marco Longobardo analyzes how laws of war, human rights, occupation, and against racial discrimination intersect.…
Omicron: The Variant that Vaccine Apartheid Built
"If the current course is not corrected, vaccine apartheid will only deepen, and the resulting maldistribution will render historically subordinated groups even more disposable."
Announcing a Partnership With Oxford University Press
Just Security is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Oxford University Press for an occasional series of thematically organized print volumes on specific issues of international…