Racial determination still structures occupational possibility through indirect coded channels
Evidence
Occupation speaks relatedly to one’s work, to what one does “for a living,” how one provides for oneself and those one regards as one’s extended self, how one gets by. Here occupation concerns what more literally consumes one’s life-sustaining time, with which one “occupies” oneself. As with spaces of habitation, occupation in this sense too is deeply racially indexed. Throughout modernity, racial meaning and presumption have deeply marked not just where one can work but what one can do, from slavery and ownership to unskilled labor and professional license, artistic expression and intellection. While no longer so explicit, racial determination still structures occupational possibility, through codes of class, inherited wealth and poverty, cultural presumptions about ability, and socio-physical conditions of inheritance. Like a noxious but odorless gas, race silently and invisibly strains and signifies the limits of “employability.” Less explicit perhaps, racial figuring of occupational possibility nevertheless now is not only less remarked and visible but to that degree also less easy, even less possible, to challenge. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1847
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Racial bias in 911 calls spreads through multi-agent information channels into the justice system — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 29; Racialized structures distribute resources and access by race — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1828; Automated recommendation systems reproduce and intensify offline racial discrimination. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 36
Broader Connections
- Automated recommendation systems reproduce and intensify offline racial discrimination.
#exemplifies(0.82) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 36 - Racial bias in 911 calls spreads through multi-agent information channels into the justice system
#expands(0.78) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 29 - Racialized structures distribute resources and access by race
#corroborates(0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1828