Technology
Techno Utopian
Silicon valley belief that Tech will save us
recividism
"prison cycling"
people returning to the safety and routine provided by incarceration
Structural racism leads to poor health outcomes
more likely to live in areas with less green space, safety measures, and away from fresh food
example: Hispanic/Latino paradox
Community where immigrants of particular race groups live close together and experience less mainstream racial hostilities
ethnic enclave
the ways that technology is racist
technology is imbued with its creator's biases and access to technology is split along racial lines (digital redlining)
School criminalization process are still linked to the carceral state
Students suspended/expelled are likely to be in contact with the juvenile justice system the following year
school to prison pipeline
The way individual racism leads to poor health outcomes
POC experience stress responses –> increasingly active adrenal gland → inhibition of immune system → more prone to illness
redlining and racially restrictive covenants
redlining contains "dangerous" buyers from suburbs and RRC contracts prohibit buyers from selling/renting to POC
Discrimination by search engines (Safiya Noble)
search engine algorithms misrepresent people of color + women of color; declares that search algorithms aren't driven by information
Prison industrial complex
system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race
life course perspectives
Cumulative disadvantage (how disadvantages accumulate)
Weathering hypothesis (constant exposure to stress accelerates health declines)
FHA
insured home mortgages but require that properties be in white-only neighborhoods.
New Jim Code
analyze how seemingly "neutral" algorithms and applications can replicate or worsen racial bias
Latino threat narrative
men are constructed in political rhetoric and the media as illegal, criminal, and culturally and intellectually deficient
examples of medical mistrust
Tuskegee Experiments, Mississippi "surprise" hysterectomies, Domestic Cadaver Traders, James Sims
The connection between redlining and racially restrictive covenants
redlining led to RRC contracts but they have fed into each other; both maintain homeowning inequity
Laws implemented during the War on Drugs
Law Enforcement Act (1981) passed by Ronald Reagan: Military encouraged to work with police to share intelligence and aid in the construction of militaristic tactics
Anti Drug Act of 1986: turned drug rehabilitation into drug criminalization
Made crack cocaine the only drug with a mandatory minimum penalty for a first offense possession
Theft of land and resources, erosion of environmental and economic conditions, and exclusion of black people in the social contract
creative extraction
Embedded Market
A market economy embedded within interlocking systems of oppression and privilege