Racial & Ethnic Inequality
The political and economic power that enables one group in a society to define and place other groups within racial categories.
What is Racialization?
The discriminatory practice where government agencies and private lenders denied or limited financial services, such as FHA-backed home loans, to specific neighborhoods based on their racial and ethnic composition.
What is redlining?
This political stance is a reaction to perceived social disorder, favoring strict law enforcement and increased penalties as the solution to crime.
What is the "Law and Order" movement?
This term highlights how immigration violations are increasingly addressed through criminal justice processes.
What is crimmigration?
This is unearned societal advantages that benefit white people in a system shaped by systemic racism, regardless of their personal beliefs or economic status.
What is white privilege?
A now-illegal clause in a property deed that once barred people of certain races from buying, leasing, or living there, which can still be found in old documents.
What is a racial covenant?
The significant increase in the number of people imprisoned since the 1970s, which led to the US to have the world's largest prison system.
What is mass incarceration?
These portray immigrants as criminals, burdening social services, economic threats, and invaders.
What are examples of controlling images re immigrants?
This approach tends individualize conflicts and shortcomings, rather than examine the larger picture with cultural differences, stereotypes, and values. This approach allows us to deny uncomfortable racial/cultural differences.
What is colorblindness?
This quote refers to how physical space and location were used to enforce racial segregation and control.
What is "Geography does the work of Jim Crow"?
Laws requiring judges to impose a specific prison sentence for certain crimes, removing judicial discretion to consider individual circumstances.
What is Mandatory Minimum?
Many undocumented workers face this kind of economic exploitation, being paid less than promised, denied overtime, or threatened with deportation if they speak up.
What is labor exploitation?
People who have an early advantage in life, like going to a good elementary school, tend to be given more opportunities, which leads to greater success later in life.
What is cumulative advantage?
Agents and developers preyed on racial prejudice to trigger panic selling, buying homes from fearful white residents at a low price and then reselling them for a hefty profit to minority buyers.
What is blockbusting?
Various relationships between prisons and businesses, such as private prisons, companies supplying goods and services to prisons, and those profiting from cheap prison labor.
What is the prison industrial complex?
Many undocumented immigrants find employment in this type of seasonal, labor-intensive industry that produces much of America’s fruits and vegetables.
What is farm work or agricultural labor?