Understanding Sue's Complex Racism
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What is the 'code of the street'?

A set of informal rules that govern street life, emerging where police influence ends, emphasizing respect, manhood, and fearlessness.

What is street violence a result of according to Anderson's theory?

A result of despair and seclusion from the majority White society, affirmed by negative views leading to an oppositional culture.

What does Potter say about the 'buzzword status' of intersectionality?

'In these cases, the grounding that intersectionality was to provide in order to make sense of the data was somehow circumvented...'

What is Rios's jungle-book trope?

<p>It refers to the sensationalistic and exotic interpretation of fieldwork by certain ethnographers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the 4 components of intersectional criminology?

<ol> <li>An epistemology for researching identities and power dynamics regarding crime. 2. A theory to understand crime commission and responses to victimization. 3. A theory for formal responses to crime and victims. 4. A perspective for informing communities on crime prevention and response.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What does Potter mean by braided?

<p>Social identities are fantastically interwoven and continually interact and affect one another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does PAR stand for and what is it?

<p>Participatory Action Research: an approach that includes members of the study population as central to the research.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What 3 goals does Potter conclude her book was able to accomplish?

<ol> <li>Explanation of intersectionality. 2. Examples of applying intersectional finesse to neglected identity politics. 3. Exemplary research projects using an intersectional approach.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the components of Sue's (2010) complex manifestation of racism?

<p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three forms of racial microaggressions according to Sue's (2007)?

<p>Microassault, Microinsult, Microinvalidation</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does class equal according to Leonard (2015)?

<p>Income + Wealth + Status</p> Signup and view all the answers

Sex is determined through the application of socially agreed upon biological criteria for classifying persons as ______ or ______.

<p>male, female</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are Merton's (1972) insiders?

<p>Members of specified groups or occupants of specified social statuses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Chauvinism?

<p>Glorifying the in-group</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the difference between prejudice and stereotypes?

<p>Prejudice is an antipathy based on faulty generalizations, while stereotypes are beliefs about the perceived attributes of a social category.</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to Zuberi, how are race and ethnicity confounded?

<p>Race is often confounded with ethnicity in demographic and statistical research.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three stages in becoming a racist activist according to Blee's study?

<p>Conversion, Selective Adoption, Resignation</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three main characteristics people organize impressions/stereotypes around?

<p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the important distinctions when comparing racism and sexism?

<p>Laws and policies, levels of integration/segregation, histories</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is oppression as described by Yamoto (1997)?

<p>Systematic mistreatment of one group by another</p> Signup and view all the answers

Name the four types of racism defined by Yamoto.

<p>Aware/Blatant, Aware/Covert, Unaware/Unintentional, Unaware/Self-righteous</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the two components of the Context and Effects of Discrimination?

<p>Intention/motivation, Result</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the categories of the Walker et al. Discrimination-Disparity Continuum?

<p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

Legal variables are considered legitimate bases for decisions in the criminal legal system.

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

Race is biologically constructed.

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who were the subjects studied in Hagan & Foster's (2006) research?

<p>Racialized adolescents</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to Leonard (2015), what are the two ways that crime is defined?

<p>Socially defined, Common sense</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are Leonard's (2015) first and second dichotomies?

<p>First dichotomy: Street vs. Elite crime; Second dichotomy: Individual vs. Structural causes of crime</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the four types of crimes that are often ignored by the media, according to Leonard (2015)?

<p>Corporate crimes, White-collar crimes, Organized crimes, State crimes</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the two general categories against whom white-collar crime charges can be brought?

<p>Individuals, Corporations</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the other names for 'state crimes'?

<p>Both A and B</p> Signup and view all the answers

The TRIAD framework distinguishes between legal and ______ variables in the criminal legal system.

<p>extra-legal</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three persistent problems in corporate crimes against women?

<p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the sexist and racist assumptions in classical theories regarding criminal behavior?

<p>Criminal behavior is attributed to individual characteristics based on identifiable biological natures that vary by sex and race.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who believed that women committed equal numbers of crime as men but were better at hiding crimes?

<p>Cesare Lombroso</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Otto Pollak state about women in his book 'Behind the Mask'?

<p>Women are good at hiding when they're on their periods and hiding their orgasms, so they're also good at hiding their crimes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Strain Theory suggest about crime and the American Dream?

<p>Strain Theory posits that the strain to achieve the American Dream leads some individuals to commit crimes due to unequal access.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the Opportunity Theory about?

<p>Opportunity Theory discusses that not everyone has access to the same strain and opportunity to commit crimes within their cultural/social group.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does General Strain Theory add to Strain Theory?

<p>General Strain Theory adds considerations of race, sex, etc., to the understanding of strain but does not address childhood traumas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Labeling Theory concerned with?

<p>Labeling Theory is concerned with how deviant labels are applied and can affect individuals' self-definition as delinquent or offender.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the women's liberation/emancipation hypothesis developed in the 1970s?

<p>It suggests that increases in women's liberation led to an increase in crimes committed by women as they gained more wealth and status.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the two differences between Adler and Simon regarding the women's liberation hypothesis?

<p>Adler argued for an increase in women's violent crimes, while Simon focused on an increase in women's property crimes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Potter's definition of intersectionality?

<p>Intersectionality is defined as the concept that each person has an assortment of coalesced socially constructed identities ordered into an inequitable social stratum.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is intersectional criminology?

<p>Intersectional criminology incorporates intersectional concepts into criminological research, theory, and evaluation of crime-related policies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a white racial frame?

<p>A white racial frame is the perspective from which white individuals view and interpret society, often with a positive orientation toward whiteness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is DuBois?

<p>DuBois was a researcher who studied race, crime, and justice, known as the 'father of criminology' and the first black person to earn a Ph.D from Harvard.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is white criminology?

<p>White criminology avoids addressing race issues due to embedded racism in the discipline and society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the second phase of feminist criminology?

<p>The second phase began in the late 1980s and shifted away from essentialist views of women.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Potter say about the term 'non-white'?

<p>'Non-white' upholds the continued subordination of people of color.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is colorism?

<p>Colorism is the evaluation of a person's skin tone by others within their racial or ethnic group and by outside groups.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three intersectional trends Potter says should be considered for teenage sex and pregnancy rates?

<ol> <li>Feminization of birth control; 2. Differential healthcare access views; 3. Lower quality of healthcare for people of color.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What are the two roots of U.S. intersectionality?

<p>U.S. intersectionality is rooted in Black feminist theory and critical race theory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is color blind feminism?

<p>Color blind feminism ignores women's racial identities, with an assumption that gender is the prominent factor for all women.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How have women of color appropriated the term 'feminism'?

<p>Through terms like 'womanist' and 'feminista' that highlight their specific cultural struggles.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the significance of Daniel Moynihan's 1965 report on The Negro Family?

<p>Moynihan theorized that strong black women working outside the home contributed to juvenile delinquency.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the Young Lords Party?

<p>The Young Lords Party was a Puerto Rican civil rights organization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What were the significant events in feminism from the 1980s and since?

<p>The third-wave feminism shifted towards anti-essentialism and intersectionality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the third wave of feminism?

<p>The third wave focuses on updating second wave feminist ideas to be relevant to younger women's lives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Potter say about double jeopardy?

<p>Double jeopardy is the disadvantage faced by Black women due to both race and gender.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does cumulative disadvantage mean?

<p>Cumulative disadvantage refers to the ongoing process of inequality over an individual's life course.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Potter report about black male exceptionalism?

<p>Black male exceptionalism asserts that black men are the race/gender doing the worst in society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is criminalblackman?

<p>Criminalblackman refers to the merging of the terms criminal and black male.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are common and exotic crimes?

<p>Common crimes include burglary and drug offenses; exotic crimes include terrorism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Potter say about self-control and opportunity in crime?

<p>Individuals with low self-control are more likely to act on their impulses when opportunities arise.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What explains gender differences in youth offenses according to Gottfredson and Hirschi?

<p>Girls commit less crime than boys due to differences in parental monitoring and punishment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are 'cumulative disadvantage,' 'human agency,' and 'situated choice'?

<p>Cumulative disadvantage focuses on lifelong inequality; human agency involves individual choices; situated choice refers to decision-making influenced by social context.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What were Giordano's dissimilar findings related to race and gender?

<p>60% of White women were desisters compared to 41% of Black women; there were significant drug use differences by race and gender.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does Potter critique Giordano's approach to identity formation?

<p>Potter states Giordano does not employ an intersectional analysis in studying race and gender's impact on identity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Potter mean by reducing criminology?

<p>Reducing criminology refers to oversimplifying crime theories without considering intersecting identities and their experiences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What three things need to be understood for an intersectional analysis of violence against women?

<ol> <li>Proliferation of violence against women; 2. Social welfare and legal responses; 3. Women's decisions in dealing with abuse.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

What significance do situated survival strategies have in Potter's research?

<p>The significance lies in girls adapting to their environments by portraying strength and willingness to fight.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Potter report about the strong Black woman narrative?

<p>Potter argues that the strong Black woman is not a 'survivor' as her struggles have not concluded.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does Potter define resistors in her research?

<p>Resistors are self-perceived fighters against abuse, viewing themselves as Strong Black Women.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the main tenets of Black feminist criminology?

<p>Black feminist criminology incorporates interconnected identities and social forces to inform policy on victimization and offending.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the common finding in studies of women of color immigrants who survived partner abuse?

<p>Their challenges are worsened by balancing cultural maintenance and adaptation as new immigrants.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What were the findings on White working-class women and intimate partner abuse?

<p>Hard-living women cycle between unstable households; settled-lives women may remain silent to avoid difficulties.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does race x gender impact earnings in Maher's ethnography?

<p>Race/gender influenced earnings in the drug and sex trades; white women earned more due to perceptions of violence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three identities of intersection identified in Richie's book Arrested Justice?

<p>Gender, race, and socioeconomic class.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Richie mean by 'We won the mainstream but lost the movement'?

<p>Richie suggests that while violence is recognized as affecting all women, women of color remain marginalized.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Richie refer to as 'gender entrapment'?

<p>Gender entrapment is the process where African American women are penalized for rational behaviors resulting from violent relationships.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is McCorkle's rehabilitative paternalism?

<p>Rehabilitative paternalism is a gendered method of control for women in prisons, viewing them as needing parental guidance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How were neighborhoods raced in Cobbina's study of women probationers?

<p>Black women resided in neighborhoods characterized by social disorganization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the difference between decent and street?

<p>Decent refers to individuals adhering to conventional values, while street refers to those who embrace or embody street culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Study Notes

Complex Manifestation of Racism (Sue, 2010)

  • Individual racism involves intentional acts meant to harm or discriminate against people of color.
  • Institutional racism refers to practices within organizations and systems that subordinate people of color while favoring others.
  • Cultural racism emphasizes the superiority of one group's culture over another, imposing cultural standards on marginalized groups.

Racial Microaggressions (Sue, 2007)

  • Defined as daily verbal, behavioral, and environmental insults towards people of color, both intentional and unintentional.
  • Three forms include:
    • Microassaults: conscious acts of derogation or discrimination.
    • Microinsults: unconscious communications that belittle a person’s racial identity.
    • Microinvalidations: comments that negate a person of color's experiences or reality.
  • Explicit biases are conscious beliefs, while implicit biases operate below awareness, influencing judgments and behaviors.

Class Definition (Leonard, 2015)

  • Class is the distribution of income, wealth, and status.
  • Wealth inequality compounds more quickly than income inequality, often transferred across generations.

Biological vs. Social Construction of Sex

  • Sex classification is based on biological criteria, while gender encompasses economic, social, and cultural attributes linked to being male or female.
  • The "Phall-O-Meter" exemplifies the social construction of sex by dictating gender categorization at birth.

Insiders and Outsiders (Merton, 1972)

  • Insiders are members of specific groups or status, while outsiders refer to nonmembers.

Definitions of Key Terms

  • Chauvinism: glorifying one's own group.
  • Ethnocentric: viewing other groups as inferior and focusing on one’s own race.
  • Ethnicity differs from race by encompassing cultural customs, self-perception, and shared activities based on origin.

Prejudice vs. Stereotype

  • Prejudice is an antipathy directed toward out-groups based on stereotypes.
  • Stereotypes are beliefs about perceived attributes of a social category.

Race and Ethnicity (Zuberi)

  • Race is often conflated with ethnicity in research, both being socially constructed to reflect power dynamics.

Women in the KKK (Blee's Study)

  • Three stages of becoming racist activists:
    • Conversion: a significant event reshaping their worldview.
    • Selective Adoption: embracing certain ideologies while rejecting others.
    • Resignation: accepting and rationalizing racist beliefs as an unfortunate truth.

Impression/Stereotype Organization

  • Impressions are often organized around three main characteristics: race, age, and gender.

Distinguishing Racism and Sexism

  • Racism involves policies designed to discriminate, while sexism often aims to protect.
  • Examining levels of integration and historical contexts reveals differences between the two.

Oppression Concepts (Yamoto, 1997)

  • Oppression is systematic mistreatment of one group by another, leading to internalized oppression among marginalized groups.
  • Four forms of racism include aware/blatant, aware/covert, unaware/unintentional, and unaware/self-righteous.

Components of Discrimination Context and Effects

  • Two components are intention/motivation and result.

Discrimination-Disparity Continuum (Walker et al.)

  • Ranges from systematic discrimination to pure justice, reflecting varying levels of discrimination across contexts and individuals.
  • Legal variables are legitimate bases for decisions in the criminal justice system related to behavior, while extra-legal variables (e.g., race, gender) are not based on individual behavior.

Social Construction of Race

  • Race's biological definition based on physical features is described as socially constructed due to the lack of exclusive categories.

Study Findings (Hagan & Foster, 2006)

  • Focused on secret and disputed deviance during racialized adolescence, identifying categories such as pure deviants, secret deviants, and conforming non-deviants.

Crime Definitions (Leonard, 2015)

  • Crime can be socially defined and commonly understood, but it is not purely objective, universal, or unchanging.

Dichotomies in Crime (Leonard, 2015)

  • First dichotomy: Street vs. Elite crime, with street crimes often highlighted in media.
  • Second dichotomy: Individual vs. Structural causes of crime, emphasizing the roles of societal inequality.

Roots and Harms in Crime Labels (Leonard, 2015)

  • Understanding the impact of labels in crime context informs discussions of racism, sexism, and classism.

Elite Crimes (Leonard, 2015)

  • Four types often ignored:
    • Corporate crimes: e.g., Bhopal disaster.
    • White-collar crimes: e.g., fraud and embezzlement.
    • Organized crimes: e.g., drug trafficking.
    • State crimes: e.g., unjust acts by government agencies.

Charges in White-Collar Crimes

  • Charges can be brought against individuals and corporations.

Overview of Major Case Studies

  • Bhopal, Tuskegee, and others exemplify corporate and state crimes, often lacking media or public focus despite their impacts on marginalized communities.

Alternative Names for State Crimes

  • Also referred to as governmental or political crimes.

Patterns of Corporate Misconduct

  • Five patterns include denial of wrongdoing, habitual offending, prioritizing profit over safety, avoiding liability, and learned intermediary doctrine.

Persistent Problems in Corporate Crimes Against Women

  • Three main issues: ignoring victims, identifying victims, and blaming victims.

Assumptions in Classical Theories

  • Classical theories attribute crime to individual traits, often linking criminal behavior to identifiable biological differences based on race and gender.

Pollak's Views on Women and Crime

  • Otto Pollak argued that women commit equal crimes but are better at concealing them, citing biological factors as influencing their ability to hide wrongdoing.

Strain and Subcultural Theories

  • Strain Theory links class strain to crime, Opportunity Theory adds the importance of access to crime, while General Strain Theory broadens the perspective by including race and sex, along with potential childhood trauma.

Labeling Theory Components

  • Explores how labels are assigned and embraced, influencing a person's self-identity and reinforcing societal prejudices, crucial for understanding racial profiling and discriminatory practices.### Women's Liberation and Crime
  • Women's liberation in the 1970s linked to a rise in crimes committed by women, with wealth and status contributing to this increase.
  • Freda Adler claimed a rise in women's violent crimes due to increased freedom.
  • Rita Simon focused on an increase in property crimes among women as a result of liberation.
  • Criticisms of their theories include selective data usage and mislabeling women’s activism as crime, with subsequent studies disproving these claims.

Intersectionality and Criminology

  • Intersectionality: concept highlighting the complex interplay of coalesced identities and their influence within social hierarchies.
  • Intersectional criminology incorporates these identities into criminological research, policy evaluation, and justice administration.

Racial Frames and Perspectives

  • White racial frame: a collectively accepted viewpoint that favors whiteness while oppressing other racial identities.
  • Black feminist theorist W.E.B. DuBois is noted for linking race, crime, and justice; first black Ph.D. from Harvard.

Feminist Criminology Developments

  • Second phase of feminist criminology started in the late 1980s, moving away from one-dimensional views of women.
  • Colorblind feminism disregards racial identity, asserting gender as the sole factor unifying women.

Challenges and Perceptions

  • The term "non-white" continues to reinforce subordination of people of color.
  • Colorism reflects intra-community evaluations of skin tone among people of color.

Health and Reproductive Aging

  • Trends in teenage sex and pregnancy rates influenced by the feminization of birth control, healthcare access disparities, and quality of care differences for people of color.

Theoretical Roots

  • U.S. intersectionality draws from Black feminist theory and critical race theory.
  • Concepts like double jeopardy and trilogy of oppression articulate the compounded marginalization faced by Black women.

Criminal Justice and Gender Perspectives

  • Black women face dual discrimination in justice systems; violent crimes receive uneven attention based on the race of perpetrators and victims.
  • Criminal black man stereotype merges criminality with black male identity, impacting perceptions of victims and offenders.

Study Findings on Gender and Race in Crime

  • Reports reveal disparities in desisting patterns between racial groups, with significant differences between Black and White men and women.
  • Factors affecting women's criminal behavior are steeped in their upbringing, societal relationships, and structural influences.

Impact and Response to Violence

  • Violence against women disproportionately affects marginalized groups; understanding necessitates examining cultural, institutional, and structural elements.
  • Research emphasizes unique survival strategies employed by Black women in response to violence and social expectations.

Nuances within Communities

  • Distinctions between "decent" and "street" families reveal differing engagement with mainstream values and impact on youth.
  • The "code of the street" emphasizes informal rules for personal safety within communities facing systematic neglect.

Research Methodologies and Applicability

  • Intersectional criminology encompasses various frameworks for understanding crime and response through the lens of identity and power structures.
  • Participatory action research engages community members as integral components of the study, enhancing relevance and accuracy of findings.

Conclusion and Accomplishments

  • Potter's research aims to illuminate intersectionality, explore its application in studies neglecting identity politics, and showcase exemplary intersectional research efforts.

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Explore the concept of complex racism as defined by Sue (2010). This quiz focuses on the individual and institutional manifestations of racism and their impact on people of color. Assess your understanding of these critical aspects.

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