Black Petes &amp; Black Crooks? Racial stereotyping and offending in the Netherlands

Jacobsen, Cathrine; Joosen, Katharina J.; Smiley, Calvin John

doi:10.1080/10282580.2018.1415049

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“…However, race can also have a more direct effect through social isolation and the specific lived experiences of being Black (Anderson, 1999; Kirk and Papachristos, 2011; Sampson and Wilson, 1995; Wilson, 1987). Research indicates that racial discrimination is a predictor of subsequent criminal activity (Burt et al, 2012; Joosen, 2016 as discussed in Hayes et al, 2018; Martin et al, 2011), and several contemporary cultural theories incorporate the role of racial discrimination combined with economic disadvantage (Anderson, 1999; Simons and Burt, 2011; Unnever and Gabbidon, 2011). Importantly, in many of these theories, it is the “social isolation” of poverty and race that is the criminogenic condition.…”

Section: Race-based Structural Conditions and Criminal Offendingmentioning

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The whiteness of white-collar crime in the United States: Examining the role of race in a culture of elite white-collar offending

Sohoni

Rorie

2019

Theoretical Criminology

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While the role of race has been heavily scrutinized in terms of minority involvement in crime, it has remained largely invisible for Whites despite indications that Whites are overrepresented as offenders in elite white-collar crimes. We propose a theoretical model detailing how “whiteness” encourages cultural adaptations conducive to elite white-collar crime in contemporary US society. Many middle- and upper-class US Whites live in environments of relative social isolation, both geographically (in terms of schools and neighborhoods) and culturally (as mainstream media largely reflect the lived realities of middle- and upper-class Whites). When this social isolation is combined with financial advantage, it serves to block the development of empathy toward outgroups and increases feelings of individual entitlement, which leads to the formation of crime-specific cultural frames that include neutralizations and justifications for elite white-collar crime. We argue that whiteness plays a role that is independent from (but exacerbated by) socioeconomic status, and is an important contributor to the generative worlds from which many white-collar criminals emanate.

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Section: Race-based Structural Conditions and Criminal Offendingmentioning

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The whiteness of white-collar crime in the United States: Examining the role of race in a culture of elite white-collar offending

Sohoni

Rorie

2019

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“…How Coloured South Africans have been negatively stereotyped in South Africa should not be seen as an isolated discourse but instead forms part of a global phenomenon pertaining to non-White populations where the colonial encounter between Europeans and indigenous people has engendered the racist and dehumanising characterisation of non-White peoples around the world (Abbas 2020;Hayes et al 2018;Kende et al 2017;Piza 2000;Reed 2022;Weng and Mansouri 2021).…”

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“…Many scholars around the globe have documented the socio-cultural phenomenon of racial stereotyping in national contexts where society is organised along racial stratification systems such as, inter alia, Brazil (DaMatta 2010; Piza 2000), the US (Steele and Aronson 1995), Europe (Hayes et al 2018;Van Veen et al 2023) and Australia (Deery and Hosking 2016;Weng and Mansouri 2021). In such racially stratified social systems, non-White social groups such as Black and Brown people are usually characterised and described in negative terms.…”

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“…Black ethnic minorities in the Netherlands are usually represented and negatively stereotyped as violent and prone to crime (Hayes et al 2018). Further, other ethno-racial communities in the Netherlands such as Turkish-and Surinamese-Dutch are usually socially and culturally represented and negatively stereotyped as lazy, unemployed and of low social status (Van Veen et al 2023).…”

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Experiencing Negative Racial Stereotyping: The Case of Coloured People in Johannesburg, South Africa

Tewolde

2024

Social Sciences

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Scholars examining racial stereotyping and prejudice in racially organised social systems have largely focused on how non-White ethnic and racial groups experience racial stereotyping in White-majority national contexts such as the US, Australia and European countries. There is only scant scholarship on experiences of ethno-racial communities in Black-majority countries such as South Africa, a country where Whites are a minority. Even though there is ample scholarly work on racial stereotyping of racial groups in South Africa such as Coloured people, much of it is focused on their experiences during colonial and Apartheid eras. Little is understood about how Coloured people experience racial stigmatisation in post-Apartheid South Africa. This paper addresses this gap. Based on interviews with fourteen Coloured participants from Westbury, Johannesburg, this study found that many interviewees claimed that Coloured South Africans were negatively racially stereotyped as people who use drugs, as aggressive and violent people, as alcoholics and as criminals. Many participants also resisted and countered the negative stereotypes by talking about Coloured people in positive ways,which shows their agency. The negative stereotyping of Coloured people which prevailed during colonial and Apartheid times is still deployed by society to describe Coloured people in post-Apartheid South Africa. To capture the continuity of negative stereotyping in South Africa about Coloured people, I developed the analytical term of perpetual racial stereotyping. Many decades after the end of the Apartheid system, negative racial stereotyping of Coloured South Africans still continues in everyday life, and Coloured people are still associated with racist prejudices, narratives, discourses and stereotypes that were invented many decades ago by settler colonialism and Apartheid.

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“…Last year, the Canadian prime minister faced public outcry when it was revealed that he wore blackface as recently as 2001 to an Arabian nights-themed party ( Global News 2019). In the Netherlands, Black Pete ( Zwarte Piet ), a Dutch Christmas character who wears blackface makeup, persists as a marketing and social icon despite public backlash (Hayes et al 2018). Other specific examples, which are too numerous to recount, include fashion retailer H&M apologizing in 2018 for showing a Black child modelling a hoodie that featured the phrase “coolest monkey in the jungle” ( CNBC 2018).…”

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A Macromarketing Call to Action—Because Black Lives Matter!

Francis

2020

Journal of Macromarketing

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This essay poses the question do Black Lives Matter to marketing? Putting the spotlight on research in marketing reveals the multiple ways in which the field has neglected a most pressing issue of our time—structural and systemic anti-Black racism. The global rallying cry in the Black Lives Matter protests alerts us to the urgency for transformative change in all spheres including the marketing academy. Macromarketing is particularly poised to lead this change given the commitment to justice in marketing systems and concerns with the bilateral impact of marketing on society. This essay issues a call to action to re-historize the role of transatlantic slavery, for researchers to be reflective in addressing systemic racism, and for the academy to adopt anti-racist strategies to propel this scholarship from the periphery of marketing thought to its core.

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Black Petes & Black Crooks? Racial stereotyping and offending in the Netherlands

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The whiteness of white-collar crime in the United States: Examining the role of race in a culture of elite white-collar offending

The whiteness of white-collar crime in the United States: Examining the role of race in a culture of elite white-collar offending

Experiencing Negative Racial Stereotyping: The Case of Coloured People in Johannesburg, South Africa

A Macromarketing Call to Action—Because Black Lives Matter!

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