4161 - Uncovering the Ordinary: Everyday Mechanisms of Racism and Resistance

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Sociologists of race and ethnicity generally regard racism as a patently structural system responsible for the production of an asymmetrical system of white privilege that pervades every aspect of civil society, shapes social interactions and affects lived experiences. While a vast body of work has documented and explicated the nature of racism and inequality; the precepts and contradictions of racialized belief systems; and the dynamics of intergroup cooperation, and competition; growing attention has been devoted to better understanding how ordinary behaviors, feelings, beliefs, and practices – generated by that structure -- collectively normalize, maintain and reproduce racial hierarchy. Panelists will discuss an exciting array of papers examining such ordinary activities as touring a brewery, placing a rental ad on Craigslist, paying a municipal fine, being detained by police or describing your vote for Trump as a non-racist act, can be inflected by racial discourses, ideologies and norms that both reproduce and resist the existing racial order.

Sub Unit

• Racial and Ethnic Inequality

Session Organizer

• Christopher Scott Chambers, Providence College

Presider

• Miguel Angel Montalva Barba, Northeastern University

Individual Presentations

• “Ask Him If You’re Being Detained”: Bystander resistance in street police encounters - Katherine Danielle Hilson, Carthage College

• A Study of Colorblind Racial Ideology in White New Yorkers’ Support for Donald Trump - Adam Safer, Stony Brook University

• Cultural Intermediaries and the Reproduction of White Space in the Market “Place” - Erik Tyler Withers, University of South Florida

• Pocketbook Policing: How Race Shapes Municipal Reliance on Punitive Fines and Fees in the Chicago Suburbs - John N. Robinson, Washington University in St Louis; Josh Pacewicz, Brown University

• Seattle Rental Ad Texts and Processes of Segregation - Ian Kennedy, University of Washington; Amandalynne Paullada, University of Washington, Linguistics; Christian L. Hess, University of Washington; Sarah Chasins, University of California at Berkeley, Computer Science