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This book uses a controversial criminal immigration court procedure
along the Mexico-U.S. border called Operation Streamline as a rich
setting to understand the identity management strategies employed
by lawyers and judges. How do individuals negotiate situations in
which their work-role identity is put in competition with their
other social identities such as race/ethnicity,
citizenship/generational status, and gender? By developing a new
and integrative conceptualization of competing identity management,
this book highlights the connection between micro level identities
and macro level systems of structural racism, nationalism, and
patriarchy. Through ethnographic observations and interviews,
readers gain insight into the identity management strategies used
by both Latino/a and non-Latino/a legal professionals of various
citizenship/generational statuses and genders as they explain their
participation in a program that represents many of the systemic
inequalities that exist in the current U.S. criminal justice and
immigration regimes. The book will appeal to scholars of sociology,
social psychology, critical criminology, racial/ethnic studies, and
migration studies. Additionally, with clear descriptions of
terminology and theories referenced, students can learn not only
about Operation Streamline as a specific criminal immigration
proceeding that exemplifies structural inequalities but also about
how those inequalities are reproduced-often reluctantly-by the
legal professionals involved.
The title of this collection, The Logic of Racial Practice, pays
homage to the work of Pierre Bourdieu, who coined the term habitus
to name the pretheoretical, embodied dispositions that orient our
social interactions and meaningfully frame our lived experience.
The language of habit uniquely accounts for not only how we are
unreflectively conditioned by our social environments but also how
we responsibly choose to enact our habits and can change them.
Hence, this collection of essays edited by Brock Bahler explores
how white supremacy produces a racialized modality by which we live
as embodied beings, arguing that race-and racism-is performative,
habituated, and enacted. We do not regularly have to "think" about
race, since race is a praxis, producing embodied habits that have
become sedimented into our ways of being-in-the-world, and that
instill within us racialized (and racist) dispositions, postures,
and bodily comportments that inform how we interact with others.
The construction of race produces a particular bodily formation in
which we are shaped to viscerally perceive through a racialized
lens images, words, activities, and events without any
self-reflective conceptualization, and which we perpetuate
throughout our day-to-day choices. The contributors argue that
eradicating racism in our society requires unlearning these
racialized habitus and cultivating new anti-racist habits.
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