The Class-to-Race Cascade
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Tartalom: https://crs.ceu.edu/index.php/crs/article/view/6
Archívum: Critical Romani Studies
Gyűjtemény: Arts and culture
Cím:
The Class-to-Race Cascade
Létrehozó:
McCombs, Jonathan
Kiadó:
Romani Studies Program at Central European University
Dátum:
2018-12-28
Tartalmi leírás:
This paper explores neoliberal discourse as a racial discourse in relation to how Roma are conceived by academics and policymakers. I develop the concept of the class-to-race cascade as a way to describe the phenomenon, whereby the marginalization of racialized minorities is attributed entirely to their classposition. The cascade flows as follows: neoliberal policies slash benefits to low-income people, low-income people are disproportionately racially marginalized, thus neoliberal policies affect different racialized minorities, perpetuating racism. I trace the lineage of the class-to-race cascade to the concept of the“underclass” as it was developed in the U.S. particularly through the work of William Julius Wilson after the neoliberal turn. I then critique the work of Iván Szelényi and János Ladányi who adapted the “underclass” thesis to Roma, using the class-to-race cascade. Finally, I apply the concept to urban policy discourse inBudapest’s Eighth District, where a large Roma community has lived for nearly a century. I show in this paper that the class-torace cascade is a prominent discursive feature of both policy and academic concepts of Roma.
Nyelv:
angol
Típus:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Formátum:
application/pdf
Azonosító:
10.29098/crs.v1i2.6
Forrás:
Critical Romani Studies; Vol 1 No 2 (2018); 24-39
2630-855X
2560-3019
10.29098/crs.v1i2
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Copyright (c) 2018 Jonathan McCombs