Rethinking the racialization of crime: the significance of black firsts

Knepper, Paul

doi:10.1080/01419870701492018

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“…Other studies focus on how racial stereotypes about drug dealing and drug use shape racial disparities in arrests (Beckett et al 2005), and how individuals who are perceived to have committed stereotype-congruent crimes often receive additional legal sanctions (Harris et al 2011). Less common in this area are studies of racialization from the perspectives of police and prison workers, though Holdaway (1997) shows how race was constructed among officers in an English constabulary, and Knepper (2008) explores "counterracialization" in a study of African Americans who desegregated the justice system in North Carolina.…”

Section: Institutions and Interaction: The Middle Groundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racial Formation in Perspective: Connecting Individuals, Institutions, and Power Relations

2013

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Over the past 25 years, since the publication of Omi & Winant's Racial Formation in the United States, the statement that race is socially constructed has become a truism in sociological circles. Yet many struggle to describe exactly what the claim means. This review brings together empirical literature on the social construction of race from different levels of analysis to highlight the variety of approaches to studying racial formation processes. For example, macro-level scholarship often focuses on the creation of racial categories, micro-level studies examine who comes to occupy these categories, and meso-level research captures the effects of institutional and social context. Each of these levels of analysis has yielded important contributions to our understanding of the social construction of race, yet there is little conversation across boundaries. Scholarship that bridges methodological and disciplinary divides is needed to continue to advance the racial formation perspective and demonstrate its broader relevance.

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Section: Institutions and Interaction: The Middle Groundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racial Formation in Perspective: Connecting Individuals, Institutions, and Power Relations

2013

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“…This process of negotiating senses of difference and similarity, as mentioned earlier, constructs social identities and notions of community (Barth, 1969;Cohen, 1985;Jenkins, 2008aJenkins, , 2008b. While this 'double-consciousness', or straddling of identities, may constrain individuals, it may also be a site for some to redefine for themselves what it means to being African-American and their attachments to American national identity (Knepper, 2008). Individuals can respond in multifaceted ways.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…To hint that black veterans defending the American Flag is paradoxical may discount the diversity of the African-American experience. It only highlights how individuals are racialised, rather than how they respond to their racialisation (Knepper, 2008).…”

Section: National Identities 85mentioning

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Why American nationalism should never be considered postnationalist

Madriaga

2010

National Identities

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“…Whether this is through the lens of intersectionality, or alongside it, the need for explicit discussion about race, racism and criminalization and how these issues operate together, is compelling. Furthermore, criminology is a space where the criminalization and securitization of some minority ethnic groups can also be potentially disrupted; criminology as well as a site for applying criminal or racialized identities to ethnic populations can be subverted to create an arena where the resistance to racialized identities can convene, become redefined or illuminated more accurately through empirical findings (Knepper, 2008). At a time when the conceptual borders of ethnicity, religion, gender, nationality and class are not neatly distinguishable, the need for a nuanced and clear understanding and language of race and racism is all the more necessary in order for an intersectional approach to advance and transform British criminology.…”

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Intersectionality, British criminology and race: Are we there yet?

Parmar

2016

Theoretical Criminology

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Intersectionality is the study of overlapping social identities and related systems of oppression, discrimination and domination. From an intersectional perspective, aspects of a person’s identity, for example race, class and gender are understood to be enmeshed. To understand how systemic injustice operates and is produced, a multi-dimensional framework which captures how forms of oppression intersect and are shaped by one another, is necessary. Although the merits of an intersectional approach in criminology have been widely shown and discussed in US scholarship, within British criminology, there have been few analyses that have implemented an intersectional lens – either explicitly or implicitly. Correspondingly, close examination of the social construction of race within the criminal justice system has been largely absent in British criminology. In the following paper, I suggest that these two developments are co-constitutive – that British criminology’s unwillingness to engage with race has resulted in the reticence towards an intersectional approach and vice versa. This is both problematic and a missed opportunity. At a time when much criminological research convenes around the intersection of race, class, religion and gender, the absence of intersectional approaches and the lack of discussion about the racializing consequences of the criminal justice system serve to stymie meaningful debate and advancement of the field.

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Rethinking the racialization of crime: the significance of black firsts

Cited by 11 publications

References 16 publications

Racial Formation in Perspective: Connecting Individuals, Institutions, and Power Relations

Racial Formation in Perspective: Connecting Individuals, Institutions, and Power Relations

Why American nationalism should never be considered postnationalist

Intersectionality, British criminology and race: Are we there yet?

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