Hidden in Plain Sight: A Note on Legitimation Crises and the Racial Order

Dawson, Michael C.

doi:10.1086/685540

Cited by 108 publications

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“…The result is a new tier of subordinated labor subject simultaneously to enhanced coercion and diminished protection. This comports with longstanding patterns by which the labor citizenship associated with white, male breadwinners has been dissociated from work deemed to occur outside the labor market and, instead, to be embedded legally in separate institutional spheres of family, of immigration, of welfare, and/or of criminal law (Dawson 2016;Gilmore 2007, 185;Hatton 2015;Zatz and Boris 2014).…”

Section: Creating Legally Unprotected Forms Of Workmentioning

confidence: 77%

Get to Work or Go to Jail: State Violence and the Racialized Production of Precarious Work

Zatz¹

2019

Law Soc. Inq.

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Work requirements backed by threats of incarceration offer a fertile but neglected site for sociolegal inquiry. These “carceral work mandates” confound familiar accounts of both the neoliberal state’s production of precarious work through deregulation and the penal state’s production of racialized exclusion from labor markets. In two illustrative contexts—child support enforcement and criminal legal debt—demands for work emerge as efforts to increase and then seize earnings from indigent debtors; an ability to pay is defined to include an ability to work. In a third, demands for work are imposed directly through probation, parole, and other community supervision. In each context, the carceral state regulates work outside of prison. It defines appropriate labor conditions through concepts of voluntary unemployment, and it enables employers to discipline or retaliate against workers by triggering state violence. Additionally, mandated work may be removed from employment law protections when the carceral context dominates its sociolegal meaning. Finally, the resulting vulnerable workforces can be used to displace or discipline other workers not personally subject to carceral work mandates. Analogies to welfare work requirements, workplace immigration enforcement, and prison labor illustrate these points. Implications are considered for theorizing contemporary racial political economy.

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Section: Creating Legally Unprotected Forms Of Workmentioning

confidence: 77%

Get to Work or Go to Jail: State Violence and the Racialized Production of Precarious Work

Zatz¹

2019

Law Soc. Inq.

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“…In further expanding this principle, it is important to recognize how racial/ethnic minority populations in the United States, especially black populations, have long been structurally disadvantaged in terms of power (e.g. Du Bois 1992, Peña 1998, Dunbar-Ortiz 2014, Meladmed 2015, Dawson 2016, Fraser 2018. Through various forms of expropriation and exploitation, minority populations have been extensively marginalized, resulting in a lack of financial assets, legal resources, and political influence.…”

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confidence: 99%

Power, proximity, and physiology: does income inequality and racial composition amplify the impacts of air pollution on life expectancy in the United States?

Jorgenson

Hill

Clark

et al. 2020

Environ. Res. Lett.

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This study advances research at the intersection of environmental degradation, social stratification, and population health in the United States. Expanding the theoretical principles of power, proximity, and physiology, we hypothesize that the harmful effect of fine particulate matter on life expectancy is greater in states with higher levels of income inequality and larger black populations. To test our hypothesis, we use two-way fixed effects regression analysis to estimate the effect of a three-way interaction between fine particulate matter, income share of the top ten percent, and the percent of the population that is black on state-level average life expectancy for all US states and the District of Columbia (2000Columbia ( -2014. The findings support our hypothesis: the estimated effect of the three-way interaction on average life expectancy is negative and statistically significant, net of various socioeconomic and demographic controls. Using post-estimation techniques, we visually illustrate that the harmful effect of fine particulate matter on life expectancy is especially pronounced in states with both very high levels of income inequality and very large black populations. We conclude by summarizing the theoretical and substantive implications of our findings, the limitations of the study, and potential next steps in this evolving area of interdisciplinary research. Recently, Hill and colleagues (2019) conducted a longitudinal analysis of US states and the District of Columbia

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“…Scholars have documented how racial inequalities have persisted, and they have offered numerous policy-centered, political economy explanations for their persistence (e.g., Alexander 2012;Forman 2012). Central to these explanations is the argument that racial disparities persist because racial discrimination is both pervasive and persistent despite established civil rights laws (Bobo, Kluegel, and Smith 1997;Dawson 2016;Dawson and Francis 2015). This calls into question the role of government in enforcing these laws, as well as the downstream consequences of government action (or inaction) for racial inequalities, the political economy of race, and the development of racial orders.…”

Section: Can the Government Deter Discrimination? Evidence From A Ranmentioning

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Can the Government Deter Discrimination? Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in New York City

Fang

Guess

Humphreys

2019

The Journal of Politics

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Hidden in Plain Sight: A Note on Legitimation Crises and the Racial Order

Cited by 108 publications

References 6 publications

Get to Work or Go to Jail: State Violence and the Racialized Production of Precarious Work

Get to Work or Go to Jail: State Violence and the Racialized Production of Precarious Work

Power, proximity, and physiology: does income inequality and racial composition amplify the impacts of air pollution on life expectancy in the United States?

Can the Government Deter Discrimination? Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in New York City

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