Examining the Reach of Color Blindness: Ideological Flexibility, Frame Alignment, and Legitimacy among Racially Conservative and Extremist Organizations

Brooks, Erinn; Ebert, Kim; Flockhart, Tyler

doi:10.1080/00380253.2017.1296340

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“…Institutional legitimacy, or the “fundamental social processes wherein the actions of an institution are socially constructed as desirable and just” (Roscigno et al 2015:18), offers a framework to understand how their responses work to sustain and reinforce controversial institutional practices. Such responses, or legitimation strategies, are bound to take myriad and seemingly inconsistent forms because they rely on dominant ideologies, which are flexible and adaptable (Brooks, Ebert, and Flockhart 2017; Jackman 1994). In the following, we outline the theoretical underpinnings of the process of institutional legitimacy: the importance of elite frames and the types of frames that elites might rely on to defend a contested institutional practice.…”

Section: Theories and Expectationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Apathy and Color-Blindness in Privatized Immigration Control

Ebert

Liao

Estrada

2019

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Despite several widely covered scandals involving the role of for-profit corporations in administering immigration policy, the privatization of immigration control continues apace with the criminalization of immigration. How does this practice sustain its legitimacy among the public amid so much controversy? Recent studies on the criminalization of immigration suggest that supporters would explicitly vilify immigrants to defend the privatization of immigration control. Research on racialized social control, on the other hand, implies that proponents would avoid explicit racism and vilification and instead rely on subtler narratives to validate the practice. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of over 600 frames derived from nearly 200 news media articles spanning over 20 years, we find that journalists and their sources rarely vilify immigrants to justify the privatization of immigration control. Instead, they frame the privatization of immigration detention as a normal component of population management and an integral part of the U.S. economy through what we call the apathy strategy—a pattern of void in which not only the systematic oppression of immigrants is underplayed, immigrant themselves also become invisible.

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Section: Theories and Expectationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Apathy and Color-Blindness in Privatized Immigration Control

Ebert

Liao

Estrada

2019

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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“…Feagin adds that racialized communities can also deploy counter-racial frames, either challenging the racial meanings ascribed to them-"we are hardworking, tax-paying humans, not criminals"-or amplifying their own ideas about who they are-"migration is beautiful, we are proud to be undocumented immigrants." In this sense, a racial frame can reproduce-both intentionally and unintentionally-or challenge dominant systems of racism (Bracey et al, 2017;Brooks et al, 2017;Feagin, 2010;Yazdiha, 2014Yazdiha, , 2020.…”

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Building and Wedging Strategic Alliances: Racial Framing Contests in the Immigrant Rights and Nativist Counter-Movements

Yazdiha

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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As immigrant rights movements and anti-immigrant mobilizations engage in contentious battles for public support, it is increasingly essential to understand how these opposing political forces develop strategic alliances, garnering power, and shaping larger debates around immigration. Using newspaper data, this study compares case studies of immigrant rights and nativist battles in two mobilizations—the 2012 “No Papers, No Fear Ride for Justice” during the Obama Era and the 2018 “Family Separation Protests” during the Trump Era—to analyze how movements and counter-movements strategically deploy frames to generate or disrupt strategic alliances. Findings identify strategic racial frame deployment as a mechanism that can either amplify or obfuscate racial meanings, enabling, and constraining counter-frames by rival movements. I highlight patterns in how these racial frames are used in framing contests to bring groups together in alliances or wedge groups apart, illuminating the underlying system of racialization as it shapes intergroup boundaries, its limits, and its radical possibilities for transformation.

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“…The DOS allows for narratives that rely on a host of available ideologies. Insofar as they are political instruments, these narratives are flexible in their application across contexts, adapting to meet the goals of the dominant group (Brooks, Ebert, and Flockhart 2017;Jackman 1994 to proponents (and journalists who rely on them as sources) that more straightforward appeals are legitimate and may resonate with the broader public. Such changes have not, however, legitimized the use of racism typified by the current administration.…”

Section: Support For Privatized Detentionmentioning

confidence: 99%