Looking Suspicious: The Racialization of Crime
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Graduate Center of The City University of New York
This panel will explore the ways in which crime, criminal justice, and its corresponding systems target AfroLatin@s while simultaneously rendering them invisible. While the disproportionate numbers of Black and Latino men and women in the criminal justice system has been well documented, statistics tend to treat them as discrete populations. We will call attention to the dearth of available data adequately documenting the AfroLatin@ experience, and explore how the failure to count both race and ethnicity serves to conceal racializing practices in policing, detention, judicial, and criminal justice processes. Our conversation will also consider how socioeconomic factors and heavy surveillance push Afrolatin@s into prisons in the first place.
Graduate Center of The City University of New York
This panel will explore the ways in which crime, criminal justice, and its corresponding systems target AfroLatin@s while simultaneously rendering them invisible. While the disproportionate numbers of Black and Latino men and women in the criminal justice system has been well documented, statistics tend to treat them as discrete populations. We will call attention to the dearth of available data adequately documenting the AfroLatin@ experience, and explore how the failure to count both race and ethnicity serves to conceal racializing practices in policing, detention, judicial, and criminal justice processes. Our conversation will also consider how socioeconomic factors and heavy surveillance push Afrolatin@s into prisons in the first place.