JustSouth Quarterly

Institute staff and collaborators disseminate their research and analysis and education on Institute core issues of race, poverty, and migration, their interconnections, and Catholic Social Teaching through a variety of means, including the JustSouth Quarterly.

JustSouth Quarterly archives

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Spring 2013

• Immigration Reform in Retrospect: Lessons Learned, Lives Changed--Weishar
• Catholic Social Thought (CST) and Subsidiarity--Kammer
• The Gift of W.E.B. Du Bois and Double-Consciousness--Mikulich
• Taxing the Poor: The Regressive Nature of State-Local Tax Systems--Kammer

Winter 2012

• Fiscal Cliff, Fiscal Slope, or the Common Good: The U.S. Debt and Deficit Crisis, Lame Ducks, and a New Responsibility--Kammer
• Catholic Social Thought and Global Financial Systems--Kammer
• Reform of Guestworker Program Thwarted--Weishar
• Thomas Merton’s “Letters to a White Liberal”--Mikulich

Fall 2012

• Race and the 2012 Presidential Election--Mikulich
• Catholic Social Thought and the Common Good--Kammer
• Fairy-Tale or Worse? The Ryan-Romney Budget Plan and Catholic Moral Criteria--Kammer
• "Impossible Subjects" with Impossible Choices--Weishar

Summer 2012

• Mississippi Rejects Immigration Enforcement Bill--Weishar
• Catholic Social Thought and Restorative Justice--Mikulich
• Does Relative Mobility "Cure" Inequality?--Kammer
• Changing the Script: A Starting Point for Reducing Gun Violence--Mikulich

Spring 2012

• So Help Us God: Life, Death, and Voting Rights in the Texas Colonias--Michael Seifert
• Catholic Social Thought and Distributive Justice--Kammer
• Stop Casting Stones: The Failure of Punitive Crime Policy--Mikulich
• Growing Economic Inequality Matters!: Why People of Faith Should Be Concerned--Kammer

• Spring 2012 JustSouth Quarterly (Issuu.com)

Winter 2011

• That "Merciless Law": The Faith Response to Alabama's HB 56--Arroyo and Weishar
• Catholic Social Thought and "the Law"--Kammer
• The Audacity of Eucharistic Hope and the Legacy of Lynching--Mikulich
• Imprisoned, Forgotten, and Deported: Immigration Detention, Advocacy, and the Faith Community [Conference Report]--Kammer

Fall 2011

• Louisiana's Historic Opportunity to End the Death Penalty and Affirm Life--Mikulich
• Catholic Social Thought and the Death Penalty--Mikulich
• The Debt Debate Debacle--Kammer
• My Experience in Immigration Detention (Hassan)--Weishar
• Photo collage: 25th Annual Social Action Summer Institute [SASI]

Summer 2011

• A Welcoming Church: Mississippi Congregation Reaches out After Devastating Immigration Raid--Weishar
• Catholic Social Thought (CST) and Unemployment--Kammer
• Employment Slow to Rebound: Millions of Gulf South Workers Face Still Greater Challenges--Kammer
• A Curious Case of Racial Amnesia--Mikulich

Spring 2011

• U.S. Taxes Are Low by Comparison--Kammer
• Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and Taxes--Kammer
• A More Humane System--Alternatives to Immigration Detention (Part 2)--Weishar
• Federal Budget Reflects Nation's Morality--Kammer
• Payday Loans Strangle Working Families--Mikulich
• Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Welcoming Community?--Allison Plyer, Ph.D., and Jarvis DeBerry

Winter 2010

• It's Criminal! The Consequences of Mass Incarceration without Social Justice--Mikulich
• Catholic Social Teaching and Criminal Justice--Kammer
• A More Humane System--Immigration Detention through Community-Based Alternatives (Part I)--Weishar
• Child Poverty, Rural Poverty, and "Deep Poverty"--Kammer
• Capitol Comments: The Death Penalty is a Respect Life Issue!--Andy Rivas, JD

Fall 2010

• A Beacon of Hope on the Border--Fr. Edwin L. Gros, SJ
• Catholic Social Teaching and Social Analysis--Kammer
• U.S. Jesuits, social analysis, and the urban poor during the economic recession--Arroyo
• Jim Crow--Born Again: The Case of Mississippi--Mikulich
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander [Book Review]--Mikulich

Summer 2010

• Tomatoes, Farmworkers, and Social Justice--Kammer
• Who Dat? Immigrants in the Gulf South--Chavez
• A Way Where There Is No Way--Mikulich
• Racial Wealth Inequality and the Myth of a "Post-Racial" America--Mikulich

Spring 2010

• For the Sake of the U.S. Children of Immigration--Chavez
• Biblical Hospitality, Immigration, and the Boundary of Whiteness--Mikulich
• Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and Social Structures--Kammer
• Latino Immigration in New Orleans--Manuel Vásquez, Ph.D.
• The Measure of Poverty--Kammer

Winter 2009

• Poverty and the Gulf South States--Kammer
• Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and Poverty--Kammer
• Where Y'at, Fair Housing?--Mikulich
• Immigration at a Glance--Chavez
• Standing in Solidarity--Chavez

Fall 2009

• Got Privilege? The Ironies of White Privilege and the Gospel Call to Conversion--Mikulich
• Catholic Social Teaching on Race: A Select Bibliography--Mikulich
• A Must Read-More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City by William Julius Wilson [Book Review]--Mikulich
• Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and Racism--Kammer

Summer 2009

• Immigrants as People, Not Files!--Greene
• Twenty-first Century Jungle: Displaced Workers in the New Transnational Economy--Aaron Schneider, Ph.D.
• U.S. Xenophobia and Racism-The Presence of the Past--Mikulich
• Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and Migration--Kammer

Spring 2009

• What is Catholic Social Teaching (CST)?--Kammer