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Black Lives Matter: l'intersectionnalité, une méthodologie analytique


par Judy Judy Meri
Université Côte d'Azur  - Master 1 Information et communication 2021
  

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1.2 Partie I, Chapitre II

Note24: Forman :P17-18 It is now widely recognized that the drug war has caused tremendous damage--especially in the low-income African American communities that have been its primary target. Blacks are much more likely than whites to be arrested, convicted, and incarcerated for drug offenses, even though blacks are no more likely than whites to use drugs. Marijuana produces particularly blatant arrest disparities: in Washington, D.C., the

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black arrest rate for marijuana possession in 2010 was eight times that for whites, and in that same year, law enforcement in the city made 5,393 marijuana possession arrests--nearly fifteen arrests a day.'

Note 25: American Substance Study: The rates of substance abuse among African Americans are similar to those of the general population, although there are some slight differences. The biggest difference is the use of marijuana which has been legalized in many states. Findings from the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health include: 26.9% of African Americans have a substance use disorder compared to a rate of 7.4% among the total population. 3.4% of African Americans have an illicit drug use disorder compared to a rate of 3% among the total population. Past month illicit drug use among African Americans (13.7%) is more than Caucasians (12%) and Hispanics (9.7%). Past month marijuana use among African Americans (12.2%) is higher than the general population (10.1%). African Americans report lower lifetime use of cocaine (8.5%) compared to Caucasians (17.6%) and Hispanics (11.1%). Alcohol use disorders are less common among African Americans (4.5%) than the total population (5.4%). Binge drinking among African Americans (23%) is slightly less common than in Hispanics (24.6%) and Caucasians (25.7%). The rate of heavy drinking among African Americans (4.3%) is much less than the general population (6.1%) and Caucasians (7.2%). The study also shows that although the rate of illicit drug use is higher among African Americans, statistics show that African Americans seek and receive specialty treatment for substance abuse problems at a higher rate than the rest of the population. Among individuals in need of substance abuse treatment, African Americans are more likely to receive treatment at a specialty facility (15.2% vs. 9.6% for individuals from all other ethnic groups).5 African Americans are also more likely to recognize the need and seek treatment (2.8% vs. 1.4%).

Note 26: P 25: without taking heroin into account, one cannot understand African American attitudes toward the drug war. Heroin had long troubled D.C.--a 1955 government report called the city s drug problem « serious and tragic and expensive and ominous --but by the late 1960s, what had been a problem became an epidemic. Heroin began to devour the city's poor black neighborhoods. Studies at the D.C. Central Detention Facility (commonly known as the D.C. Jail) revealed the extent of the crisis: in the early to mid-1960s, less than 3 percent of new inmates were addicted to heroin, but beginning in 1967 the growth rate exploded, tripling by 1968, then tripling again by February 1969. By June 1969, an astonishing 45 percent of the men admitted to the jail were addicts. In the city itself, the number of addicts rose from 5,000 in early 1970 to 18,000 by Christmas of that year. By 1971, there were about fifteen

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times more heroin addicts in Washington, D.C., than in all of England. These addicts were overwhelmingly likely to be young black men.

Note 28:Forman P 26-46: A study of Washington, D.C., and three other cities found that the average heroin addict committed more than three hundred crimes a year.^» * The devastation in these cities' poor black communities took many forms: as overdose deaths skyrocketed, parents buried their children; as fear of robberies and burglaries spread, residents stayed home with doors and windows bolted shut; as desperate young addicts resorted to stealing from their kin, families were forced to turn against their own. D.C.'s heroin epidemic produced two main responses. The first came from the government: a public health effort, heavy on treatment and light on law enforcement. This strategy was pioneered by Jerome Jaffe, the director of the Nixon administration's Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention, who advocated « methadone maintenance,» the practice of providing addicts with a free synthetic alternative to heroin in the form of 40- to 80-milligram « stabilization doses» of government-regulated methadone. The second response to the epidemic was organized by local activists, neighborhood leaders, and community groups. Among the most prominent was a black nationalist named Hassan Jeru-Ahmed. Hassan--a high school dropout, recovering addict, and former federal prisoner, Hassan had been converted by his experience with addiction and crime into an unrelenting drug warrior. Hassan founded the Blackman's Development Center (BDC) in May 1969, and it quickly became one of the most active antidrug organizations in the city. The BDC worked closely with Hassan's other organizations, the United Moorish Republic and the Blackman's Volunteer Army of Liberation (Hassan called himself the army's commanding officer ); at its peak, the BDC had more than seven hundred members, many of them ex-addicts like Hassan.» *^ The BDC's anger at DuPont and his Narcotics Treatment Administration (NTA) was rooted in America's history of racial subjugation. Hassan and his colleagues believed that whites wanted blacks to be addicted to narcotics, because it made them passive; in the BDC's eyes, methadone maintenance was a thinly veiled attempt to keep black people oppressed. Although Hassan advocated punitive action against drug sellers, it is important to remember that he also called for root-cause solutions to' the heroin epidemic (improving schools, fighting racism) and an ethic of black responsibility that valued hard work, education, and self-discipline. In this respect, he represented the « all of the above» Hassan recounted, but the police would often refuse to take action, citing « technicalities» and « red tape.» As for the marijuana use, White teenagers could use marijuana without jeopardizing their futures, Fauntleroy explained. After getting high, they could always « return to enjoy the comforts of the suburbs.» But poor black teenagers in the inner city had no room for error. Lacking a

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middle-class cocoon to shield them from the consequences of marijuana use, those « who have been born in frustration, who have suffered economic deprivation, who have lived in substandard housing, who may have come from families receiving welfare payments, who have no automobiles, etc.,» might never recover from youthful rebellion. Such kids, Fauntleroy concluded despairingly, will « have a difficult time securing any job, and having been truants from school, will more or less drop out upon reaching the age of sixteen.» So even if decriminalizing marijuana might save a black adolescent from getting arrested, it all but guaranteed more serious problems down the line: drug use, school failure, and crime. Those who had been arrested or convicted rarely participated in debates over criminal justice policy, in D.C. or nationally. They rarely told their stories. And their invisibility helps explain why our criminal justice system became so punitive.

Note 29: Glenn: An important consequence of racial stigma is « vicious circles» of cumulative causation: self-sustaining processes in which the failure of blacks to make progress justifies for whites the very prejudicial attitudes that, when reflected in social and political action, ensure that blacks will not advance. The effects of stigma are more subtle, and they are deeply embedded in the symbolic and expressive life of the nation and our narratives about its origins and destiny. The reasons for the development of racial stigma in the United States are in large part historical. Fundamental to the processes of race-making in the United States have been the institution of chattel slavery and the associated rituals and customs that supported the master-slave hier- archy and dishonored the slave. The social meaning of race that emerged in American political culture was closely connected with the dishonorable status of enslavement. Note 31: Zimmerman 28: Over 30 years of educational research has found that African American children generally underperform compared to their Asian and European American peers on academic indicators (for a review, see Gregory, Skiba, &Noguera, 2010; Vanneman, Hamilton, Anderson, &Rahman, 2009). Although larger institutional and systemic inequalities contribute to this underachievement (e.g., Felice, 1981; Gillborn, 2003; Kozol, 1991), psychological factors resulting from discrimination are also culpable (e.g., Neblett, Philip, Cogburn, &Sellers, 2006). In addition, stereotype threat has been found to negatively affect the performance of African American college students (Alter, Aronson, Darley, Rodriguez, &Ruble, 2010). Stereotype threat is the detrimental impact on performance that occurs when an individual's poor performance is at risk of confirming a task-relevant stereotype (e.g., Schmader, 2010; Steele, 1997) Stereotype threat has been implicated as one cause of school disengagement and the resulting poor school achievement for African American students (e.g., Crocker, Major, & Steele, 1998; Majors et al., 1998). For example, undergraduates devalue

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academic domains following repeated exposure to stereotype threatening situations (Aronson, Fried, & Good, 2002; Major et al., 1998; Major & Schmader, 1998), and high school students have been found to disidentify with academics over time in similar situations (Cokley, McClain, Jones, & Johnson, 2012; Forbes, Schmader & Allen, 2008). The most serious outcomes of long-term disidentification include dropping out of school and displaying disruptive behavior in the classroom (Klem & Connell, 2004). Thus, stereotype threat can potentially influence both short-term disengagement and long-term disidentification with academics (Steele, 1997; Steele & Aronson, 1995). (Shelvin, Rivadeneyra, et Zimmerman, 2014).

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