Article ; Online: Organized abandonment under racial capitalism: Measuring accountable actors of structural racism for public health research and action.
Social science & medicine (1982)
2024 Volume 343, Page(s) 116576
Abstract: Understanding the shifting nature of structural racism historically and across institutions is vital for effective action towards racial health equity. While public health research on structural racism is rapidly increasing, most studies are missing the ... ...
| Abstract | Understanding the shifting nature of structural racism historically and across institutions is vital for effective action towards racial health equity. While public health research on structural racism is rapidly increasing, most studies are missing the interdependence of policies and institutional practices over time that shape power imbalances and lead to entrenched health inequities. Here, we discuss Ruth Wilson Gilmore's concept of organized abandonment - the intentional disinvestment in communities which, in turn, creates opportunities for extraction, revenue generation, and carceral enforcement to fill the cracks of a compromised social infrastructure - to encourage action-oriented public health research that is grounded in history and an understanding of racial capitalism. We present a case example using publicly-available data on redlining, gentrification and policing in Seattle, Washington. We mapped the intersections of redlining and gentrification and estimated their neighborhood-level association with police activity using Bayesian spatial Poisson regression models. We found that histories of racist housing policies like redlining and processes of gentrification are interdependent and shape contemporary neighborhood racial and economic segregation and police activity. Compared to structurally advantaged neighborhoods, police stops were higher in neighborhoods that were 1) historically disinvested (i.e. redlined) and remain low-income and structurally disadvantaged and 2) formerly industrial and business districts that were not redlined and are now gentrified. Notably, we found that policing practices were significantly more intensive in neighborhoods that were both high redlined and gentrified. Together, these findings illustrate how the place-based racialized processes of dispossession, displacement and policing are deeply intertwined to maintain racial capitalism. Our findings also highlight the importance of examining multiple racialized processes simultaneously to fill critical gaps in the existing literature that are necessary for sustainable solutions to address structural racism. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Humans ; Bayes Theorem ; Capitalism ; Public Health ; Racism ; Systemic Racism |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2024-01-12 |
| Publishing country | England |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 4766-1 |
| ISSN | 1873-5347 ; 0037-7856 ; 0277-9536 |
| ISSN (online) | 1873-5347 |
| ISSN | 0037-7856 ; 0277-9536 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116576 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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