Neo-Marxism Flashcards
What does Gilroy argue about ethnic minorities and crime?
Black criminality is a myth
Black people criminalised rather than criminal
Black crime is political resistance against white rule of colonialism
Why does Gilroy belive black criminality is a myth?
Believes its a myth because he argues it to be created by racist stereotypes of African Caribbeans
Police and criminal justice system act upon racist stereotypes which criminalise black people
What does black crime being a political act against white oppressors mean?
Means criminal behaviour is a form of symbolic resistance against white society that has oppressed them
What does black crime is often intraracial mean?
Black people against black people
What did high unemployment, conflict & strikes create according to Hall?
Crisis in capitalism
What did the media create according to Hall?
Created moral panic about black muggers
Took attention away from the government and onto a powerless minority group
What were the effects of the media creating moral panic according to Hall?
Divided WC between those sympathetic and those hostile toward black people
Weakened WC resistance to capitalism
Black people criminalised - negative police stereotyping
Why did moral panic of the black mugger benefit capitalism according to Hall?
Benefited capitalism because it helped the state reassert hegemony as the public were so worried about black crime they weren’t thinking about the economic and political crisis created by capitalism
Why did moral panic of the black mugger lead to criminalisation of black people according to Hall?
Because they were arrested and targeted deliberately more than any other ethnic group
What is hegemony?
Dominance and acceptance of RC ideas by the rest of society
