mathuclair.bsky.social
Sociologist at Stanford and author of PRIVILEGE & PUNISHMENT www.matthewclair.org
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A pamphlet read: “If standing up for human rights leads to felony conspiracy charges today, what does that mean for the future of protest, academic freedom, and political expression?”
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One of the students addressed the audience, saying “Nothing, not even felony charges, are worse than what’s being done to our friends in Gaza”
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Historically, efforts to make policing + punishment larger and more punitive have been *much* harder to unwind (whatever the evidence of harm) than efforts to make these systems more progressive, rehabilitative, or restorative (which are often politically fragile). But change is constant.
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I think this is really key to understanding why the massive mobilization in summer 2020 has led to much smaller changes that people on the street demanded. It's not *just* about elite + white pushback (tho that happened too), but also diff visions for change among various communities.
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Exactly! This is a great book on this point, and generally on Silicon Valley’s environmental racism and gendered exploitation of immigrant labor.
nyupress.org/978081476709...
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All of this reminds me of this study on the toll of living in white neighborhoods on health. For black residents, racism-related stress reduces the material benefits of living in high-status white neighborhoods.
academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...
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“Floyd’s life illustrates how police misconduct operates alongside criminal court control. Growing up in public housing in Houston, he was swept up into the War on Drugs, like so many other poor Black men of his generation […] unfairly upending his life”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Can’t wait to read!
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#BlackSky #AddtoBlackSky
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If you find work like this important—especially in this political moment when the Trump Administration is working to defund both science and PBS—you can find out how to support public media here: protectmypublicmedia.org
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If you find work like this important—especially in this political moment when the Trump Administration is working to defund both science and PBS—you can find out how to support public media here: protectmypublicmedia.org
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We love to see it!
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“Abolishing police through the courts means upending courts’ relationships to police. Rather than serving as an institution that bolsters police authority, courts could question, critique, and unmask policing as the crisis it is.”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/mat...
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We hope others find this work useful. If so, check out other research and resources available at the Court Listening Project: www.courtlisteningproject.org