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"It's Just White, Black or Hispanic": An Ethnography of Racializing Moves in California's Segregated Prisons |
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In February 2005 the United States Supreme Court ruled in Johnson v. California that the California Department of Corrections’ practice of racially segregating inmates in two-person cells in its reception centers is to be reviewed under the highest standard of constitutional review available, namely “strict scrutiny.” However, we know very little about how racial segregation is enacted in California’s reception centers. For example, what precisely is the role of California’s policies and practices using race-based classifications in creating both racialized inmates and racialized prisons? To understand this process—what I will call a “negotiated settlement”—I conducted an ethnography in several reception centers in California. As I argue in this paper, the U.S. Supreme Court’s understanding of racial segregation fixates on the perceived threat of the state treating citizens differently on the basis of skin color at the price of ignoring how corrections officials and inmates alike engage in a series of interactions within a highly institutionalized context to produce observable racial segregation. Prison officials embrace and enact a de facto policy of assigning incoming inmates to same-race living environments; at the same time, inmates play a key role in how this process unfolds and what consequences it has. |
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Name: American Society of Criminology (ASC) URL: http://www.asc41.com
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| Goodman, Philip. ""It's Just White, Black or Hispanic": An Ethnography of Racializing Moves in California's Segregated Prisons" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC), Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, Nov 01, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p126996_index.html> |
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| Goodman, P. , 2006-11-01 ""It's Just White, Black or Hispanic": An Ethnography of Racializing Moves in California's Segregated Prisons" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC), Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p126996_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: In February 2005 the United States Supreme Court ruled in Johnson v. California that the California Department of Corrections’ practice of racially segregating inmates in two-person cells in its reception centers is to be reviewed under the highest standard of constitutional review available, namely “strict scrutiny.” However, we know very little about how racial segregation is enacted in California’s reception centers. For example, what precisely is the role of California’s policies and practices using race-based classifications in creating both racialized inmates and racialized prisons? To understand this process—what I will call a “negotiated settlement”—I conducted an ethnography in several reception centers in California. As I argue in this paper, the U.S. Supreme Court’s understanding of racial segregation fixates on the perceived threat of the state treating citizens differently on the basis of skin color at the price of ignoring how corrections officials and inmates alike engage in a series of interactions within a highly institutionalized context to produce observable racial segregation. Prison officials embrace and enact a de facto policy of assigning incoming inmates to same-race living environments; at the same time, inmates play a key role in how this process unfolds and what consequences it has. |
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