STIGMA AND PENALTY IN THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF BLACK BRITISH YOUNG WOMEN: THE CASE OF CHILD Q
When:
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Venue:
Online
Note this is an online event.
Speaker: Dr Esmorie Miller, Lancaster University
Title: Stigma and Penalty in the Everyday Lives of Black British Young Women: The Case of Child Q
Abstract: According to scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw African American women are over-policed and under-protected. The little known about Black British women indicates the same. Indeed scholars of race in Britain call variously for greater racial specificity in attempting to understand racialized peoples’ deficit positioning, particularly their growing representation within Britain’s penal estate. The Child Q experience offers an opportunity to adapt Crenshaw’s logic of Black women’s unique deficit positioning--where race and gender coincide, overlap, and compounds everyday experiences—for the British youth justice context. The case exemplifies how racial stigma sutures penalty, instead of care and lenience, into racialized young women’s everyday lives. Thus, the discussion joins scholars devising conceptual approaches with the potential to elucidate the consequences of the scrutiny young, Black British women experience in their everyday institutional encounters: according to the main claim the stigmatizing cadence of race places young, racialized women at a transformative impasse. My proposed analysis contributes racial specificity, including the possibility for interrogating concerns about the true character of racialized female youth’s over-policed and under-protected positioning.
This event is part of the Criminology Seminar Series at Birkbeck. Co-hosted by Birkbeck's Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies (CPEIS) and Responsible Business Centre.
Contact name:
Sappho Xenakis