How Public Policy Impacts Racial Inequality

Josh Grimm, Jaime Loke, Josh Grimm, Jaime Loke, Robert Mann

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9780807171691
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Public Policy
• Index: Social Sciences

How Public Policy Impacts Racial Inequality, edited by Josh Grimm and Jaime Loke, brings together scholars of political science, sociology, and mass communication to provide an in-depth analysis of race in the United States through the lens of public policy. This vital collection outlines how issues such as profiling, wealth inequality, and housing segregation relate to race and policy decisions at both the local and national levels. Each chapter explores the inherent conflict between policy enactment, perception, and enforcement. Contributors examine topics ranging from the American justice system's role in magnifying racial and ethnic disparities to the controversial immigration policies enacted by the Trump administration, along with pointed discussions of how the racial bias of public policy decisions historically impacts emerging concerns such as media access, health equity, and asset poverty. By presenting nuanced case studies of key topics, How Public Policy Impacts Racial Inequality offers a timely and wide-ranging collection on major social and political issues unfolding in twenty-first-century America.

INDEX

Page numbers in italics refer to figures and tables.

activism, 5, 22–23, 69–70, 170, 176. See also protests

affirmative action, 106–108

Affirmatively Further Fair Housing (2015), 50

Affordable Care Act (ACA), 78–81, 88, 153

affordable housing, 49–50

African Americans. See blacks

agricultural labor, 120, 124–126, 151

air quality, 85–88

Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), 118, 132

Alien Land acts, 144

alternative media, 68

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 16

American Community Survey (ACS), 36

American Health Care Act (2017), 80

American Indians/Alaskan natives: health insurance, 78–79; media access, 60; media representations of, 70; multiracial, 97; racial identity, 99; racial profiling and, 12; wealth inequality and, 140, 144. See also multiracial individuals; Native Americans

American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), 61

anti-immigrant rhetoric, 114–123, 126–134. See also immigration

Arizona, 81, 129

Arkansas, 150

Asians/Asian Americans: educational equity programs and, 95; environmental hazards and, 86; immigrants, 117–119, 125, 127–128; multiracial individuals, 98–99, 106 (see also multiracial individuals); residential segregation and, 29, 31–33, 36–37, 40–42; stereotypical representations of, 64

asset poverty. See black asset poverty

asylum-seekers, 113, 127

Atlanta, 85

Bachmann, Michele, 2

Baker, Cyril, 158

Baltimore, Maryland, 22, 23, 129

Barker, Cyril Josh, 143

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 19, 22

Belvedere Center (for “Americans Only”), 121

Better Care Conciliation Act (2017), 80

biracial identity, 97–98, 106–107. See also multiracial individuals

Birkland, Thomas A., 5

Bischoff, Kendra, 34–35

black asset poverty, 6, 140–161; creation of, 142–151; public policy and, 153–161; radical redress for, 142, 157–161

black church, 146–147, 170

Black Codes, 150

black elite discourse: black media and, 170, 189; black opinion and, 171–189; opinion formation and, 167–169

Black Lives Matter, 22–23. See also police killings

black media, 7, 104–105, 169–189; defined, 190n9. See also ethnic media

blackness, visibility of, 193

black political awareness, 180–188, 191n24

black political information, 6–7, 166–189

blacks: health disparities, 77–79, 82–88; media access, 58–59; multiracial, 96, 105–108 (see also multiracial individuals); police misconduct and (see police killings; racial profiling); political participation, 184–185 (see also activism); residential segregation and, 29–47 (see also segregation, residential); social and political organizations, 146–147, 170, 191n24; stereotypes about, 2–3, 21–22, 64–66, 160; support for CIA, 7, 167–168, 172–188

Blue Lives Matter, 1, 23

body cameras, 15–16, 24

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 4

border identities, 106

Border Patrol, 127–129

Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immi...

Table of contents

• COVER
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• RACE, POLICE MISCONDUCT, AND PUBLIC POLICY
• RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND THE ROLE OF HOUSING POLICY
• MEDIA INCLUSION, RACIAL JUSTICE, AND DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP
• PUBLIC POLICIES DESIGNED TO INCREASE HEALTH EQUITY
• ON THE EDGE
• BUILD THAT WALL?
• RACE, WEALTH, AND HOMESTEADING REVISITED
• POLITICAL INFORMATION IN BLACK AND WHITE
• CONCLUSION: RACE AND PUBLIC POLICY
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX