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Racial Profiling: National Legislation Policy Analysis
Get PDFRacial profiling was traditionally viewed as an issue that primarily affected African-Americans and Latino Americans. After September 11th the issue of racial profiling has expanded to more directly affect Central and South Asian Americans, Arab Americans, Muslim Americans, members of other communities perceived to originate from the Middle East and immigrants and Americans of foreign descent. These communities are joining with African-American and Latino communities to support national racial profiling legislation on a broader level, not just in traffic stops, but in regulation of all interaction with law enforcement including at airports. The national racial profiling legislation debate presents three important research questions: (1)Is racial profiling by law enforcement a pervasive problem in the United States? (2) What legislation, if any, is required to combat against racial profiling? (3) How can anecdotal evidence of racial profiling be strengthened to provide statistical proof
"Reflecting the Changing Face of America, Multiracials Racial Classification, and American Intermarriage"
Get PDFOn the U.S. census form American citizens told they may list any ethnic ancestries with which they identify, but are instructed to "mark one only" in the question on race. Joel Perlmann asserts that it is in the public interest to allow people to declare themselves as having origins in more than one race. To do otherwise is to deny that interracial marriages exist. This denial distorts our understanding of race data whether we are discussing projections of the composition of the American population or the definition of racial and minority status involved in discrimination legislation, affirmative action, and hiring and firing practices. If racial barriers are to be broken down, racial intermarriage should be treated in the same way any other form of ethnic intermarriage is treated, while ensuring that civil rights legislation, which rests on racial classification and counts, is not hobbled by ambiguities.
Racial Profiling: Erfahrung, Wirkung, Widerstand
Get PDFRacial Profiling ist eine diskriminierende und rechtswidrige polizeiliche Praxis, die nur wenig öffentliche Beachtung findet. Im Zentrum der Studie der Kollaborativen Forschungsgruppe Racial Profiling stehen Menschen in der Schweiz, für die rassistische Polizeikontrollen zum Alltag gehören. Hierzu führten wir Interviews mit Personen, die sich selbst als Schwarze*r, Person of Color, Jenische*r, Sinto*Sintezza, Rom*ni, Muslim*in, Asiat*in oder als Migrant*in bezeichnen sowie als Sexarbeiterin tätig sind. Sie alle sind von ähnlichen Formen der Kriminalisierung betroffen, unterliegen jedoch auch spezifischen polizeilichen Praktiken - je nach Geschlecht, Aufenthaltsstatus, Staatsangehörigkeit und sozioökonomischem Status. Neben den konkreten Erlebnissen kommen auch die Folgen und Wirkungen der Kontrollen für die Kontrollierten, betroffene Communitys sowie die Gesellschaft zur Sprache. Thematisiert werden zudem verschiedene Taktiken im Umgang mit der ständigen Gefahr, ins Visier der Polizei zu geraten sowie Strategien, um sich individuell, aber auch kollektiv gegen diese rassistische Praxis zur Wehr zu setzen
Geography and Racial Health Disparities
Get PDFAn extensive literature has documented racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care and health outcomes. We argue that the influence of geography in medical practice needs to be taken seriously for both the statistical measurement of racial disparities, and in designing reforms to reduce disparities. Past research has called attention to disparities that occur within hospitals or provider groups; for example black patients who are treated differently from whites within a hospital. We focus on a different mechanism for disparities; African-Americans tend to live in areas or seek care in regions where quality levels for all patients, black and white, are lower. Thus ensuring equal access to health care at the local or hospital level may not by itself erase overall health care disparities. However, reducing geographic disparities in both the quality of care, and the quality of health care decisions by patients, could have a first-order impact on improving racial disparities in health care and health outcomes.
Racial Sorting and Neighborhood Quality
Get PDFIn cities throughout the United States, blacks tend to live in significantly poorer and lower-amenity neighborhoods than whites. An obvious first-order explanation for this is that an individual%u2019%u2019s race is strongly correlated with socioeconomic status (SES), and poorer households can only afford lower quality neighborhoods. This paper conjectures that another explanation may be as important. The limited supply of high-SES black neighborhoods in most U.S. metropolitan areas means that neighborhood race and neighborhood quality are explicitly bundled together. In the presence of any form of segregating preferences, this bundling raises the implicit price of neighborhood amenities for blacks relative to whites, prompting our conjecture -- that racial differences in the consumption of neighborhood amenities are significantly exacerbated by sorting on the basis of race, given the small numbers of blacks and especially high-SES blacks in many cities. To provide evidence on this conjecture, we estimate an equilibrium sorting model with detailed restricted Census microdata and use it to carry out informative counterfactual simulations. Results from these indicate that racial sorting explains a substantial portion of the gap between whites and blacks in the consumption of a wide range of neighborhood amenities -- in fact, as much as underlying socioeconomic differences across race. We also show that the adverse effects of racial sorting for blacks are fundamentally related to the small proportion of blacks in the U.S. metropolitan population. These results emphasize the significant role of racial sorting in the inter-generational persistence of racial differences in education, income, and wealth.
Other title: Title from HTML header (viewed May 31, 2011): Racial and Ethnic Disparity Commission (CJS); Other title: Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparity in the Criminal Justice System
No full textUpdated irregularly; Began in 2002?; Title from home page (publisher's Web site, viewed May 31, 2011).; At head of title: State of Connecticut.; Official website of the Connecticut Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparity in the Criminal Justice System. Provides access to commission agenda, reports and projects.; Harvested from the web on 9/26/1
Breaking the racial silence: putting racial literacy to work in Australia
No full textRace structures the lives of Indigenous peoples and other negatively racialized people in Australia. The language of race permeates institutions, workplaces, and is embedded in everyday life. Racial literacy as pedagogical praxis resists the racial contract that secures whiteness as a structure of possessive power. We explore the state of racial literacy in Australian education, and the obstructions and opportunities for educators to do anti-racism work. To this end, we draw on the preliminary findings from an ongoing research project, Breaking the Racial Silence, and use them to inform a theoretical framework for conceptualizing educators’ racial literacy practices. We bring to the fore effective strategies, practices, and programmes used to interrogate race and racism. Despite the efforts of educators, racial literacy in formal and informal education is oftentimes suppressed and concealed by languages and practices that sustain the practices and pedagogies of whiteness.Full Tex
Intergroup contact buffers against the intergenerational transmission of authoritarianism and racial prejudice
Get PDFThe present study focused on the buffering role of positive intergroup contact in the intergenerational transmission of authoritarianism and racial prejudice in a sample of adolescents and one of their parents. In accordance with our expectations, adolescents’ intergroup contact experiences moderated the mediated relationships between parental authoritarianism and adolescents’ prejudice, both via adolescents’ authoritarianism and via parental prejudice. These relationships were stronger among adolescents with lower, rather than higher, levels of intergroup contact. We conclude that intergroup contact buffers the indirect relationship between parents’ authoritarianism and adolescents’ racial prejudice and therefore constitutes a promising means of reducing the intergenerational transmission of prejudice
Other title: Title from HTML header (viewed May 31, 2011): Racial and Ethnic Disparity Commission (CJS); Other title: Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparity in the Criminal Justice System
No full textUpdated irregularly; Began in 2002?; Title from home page (publisher's Web site, viewed May 31, 2011).; At head of title: State of Connecticut.; Official website of the Connecticut Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparity in the Criminal Justice System. Provides access to commission agenda, reports and projects.; Harvested from the web on 10/3/1
An Alternative Test of Racial Prejudice in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence
Get PDFWe exploit a simple but realistic model of trooper behavior to design empirical tests that address the following two questions. Are police monolithic in their search behavior? Is racial profiling in motor vehicle searches motivated by troopers' desire for effective policing (statistical discrimination) or by their racial prejudice (racism)? Our tests require data sets with race information about both the motorists and troopers. When applied to vehicle stop and search data from Florida, our tests can soundly reject the null hypothesis that troopers of different races are monolithic in their search behavior, but fail to reject the null hypothesis that none of the racial groups of troopers are racially prejudiced.Statistical Discrimination, Racial Prejudice, Racial Profiling
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