Other Groups Presentations Flashcards
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Poverty, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography
African American women were the most people in the courtroom and are the most common people affected by eviction
Eviction leads to “perpetual slums”
Disposable relationship compared to familial ties
Housing discrimination has become illegal but still persists in forms of racial discrimination
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The “new jim crow” - the cycle of mass incarceration of blank and brown people, their release, and the obstacles they face after being released
Caste system - Downfall in systems that stop black people, then new freedoms,
then backlash
War on Drugs
Felon label allows for legal discrimination
Structural racism allows for NJC to exist in plain sight
Affirmative action “positive discrimination”
Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America
Trespass policies - spacial exclusion, criminal offense, social control method
Giving power back to the police
SODA/SOAP - stay out of drug areas, stay out of areas of prostitution
Banishment is used to manage people
Criminalization for the homeless population
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Home Owners’ loan corporation
Federal Housing association
White flight - the act of white families vacating an area of residence once African Americans move into that area
Bank redlining - refusing to grant mortgages to African American individuals on the basis of race
21st C Reverse Redlining - predatory lending targeting African Americans ‘State-sanctioned’ violence
A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as Punishment for the Poor
LFOs - penalties that are levied in addition to jail or prison time and regularly include fines, fees, court user fees, restitution, and collection charges
Legal financial obligation
LFO’s imposed and enforced in varying and uneven ways
Today all states allow a system of punishment and incarceration of people who cannot pay legal financial obligations
