Strukturel racisme i det moderne USA

Strukturel Racisme i det moderne usa

Historiske og nutidige samfundstendenser

centerAnette Dich, juli 2015

Indhold

Abstract2

Indledning4

Motivering7

Metodiske overvejelser11

Begrebsafklaring: racismebegrebet og forskellige former for racisme13

Strukturel racisme14

Teoretisk grundlag for analysen17

Det amerikanske dilemma, nutidige normer og undertrykkelse uden racisme17

Klasseinddeling på baggrund af race22

Kapitalisme og ulighed25

Bourdieu: Kapital, habitus og symbolsk vold27

Ulighed og historisk baggrund for diskrimination af sorte amerikanere30

Slaveejernes triumf32

Tiden efter Borgerkrigen34

Dilemmaet i 1960’erne35

Økonomiske forhold og fattigdom hos enlige forældre42

Fiktiv situationsbeskrivelse, familie A og familie B42

Den splittede sorte familie44

Fængsling af sorte amerikanere49

Narkorelaterede anholdelser52

Hvem har interesse i at bevare fængselssystemets nuværende udformning?54

Uddannelse, segregation og ulighed i dag58

The American Promise61

Waiting for Superman64

”Fair Housing”, Strukturel Racisme på det Amerikanske Boligmarked68

Samlet konklusion71

Perspektivering76

Litteraturliste78

Abstract

In recent years, US society has experienced an increasing number of race-related acts of police violence. Lately, the shooting of an African American teenager, Michael Brown, has sparked a fire within the black community, thus highlighting the fact that racial issues might in fact still be present in modern time’s America. The shooting of Michael Brown occurred on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri. A white Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson, who was later freed of all charges, fatally shot Brown. The circumstances of the shooting and the resultant protests and unrest from African American members of society received considerable attention in the US as well as abroad. This incident, and others like it, opens to a debate about the general conditions for black people in the US, a debate about American law enforcement's relationship with black citizens, and to a study on whether any of these subjects might be related to the presence of racial bias. When addressing issues on race in an American context, it seems as if there are indeed matters, in which racism has not yet ceased to prevail. Studies show that, in several areas, African Americans are in an inferior social position compared to whites. Hence, numbers from the think tank, The Sentencing Project, illustrate that inmates in both federal and state prisons are predominantly members of minority groups, and that African Americans compose a significant part of the statistics.