The Politics of Space, Race and Class

Coherence of place often exists alongside irregularities in time in cycles, and chapter three turns to cycles linked by temporal markers. Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles (1950) follows a linear chronology and describes the exploration, conquest, and repopulation of Mars by humans. Conversely, Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1984) jumps back and forth across time to narrate the lives of interconnected families in the western United States. Bradbury’s cycle invokes a confluence of historical forces—time as value-laden, work as a calling, and travel as necessitating standardized time—and contextualizes them in relation to anxieties about the space race. Erdrich’s cycle invokes broader, oppositional conceptions of time—as recursive and arbitrary and as causal and meaningful—to depict time as implicated in an entire system of measurement that made possible the destruction and exploitation of the Chippewa people. Both volumes understand the United States to be preoccupied with imperialist impulses. Even as they critique such projects, they also point to the tenacity with which individuals encounter these systems, and they do so by creating “interstitial temporalities,” which allow them to navigate time at the crossroads of language and culture.

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What is a Man? Looking at the Traces of Men's Sexuality, Race and Class in the Work of Some Contemporary Photographers

Paragraph ◽

10.3366/para.2003.26.1-2.119 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 26 (1-2) ◽

pp. 119-133 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Judith Still

Keyword(s):

Race And Class

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California's Collision of Race and Class

Representations ◽

10.1525/rep.1996.55.1.99p0450s ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 55 (1) ◽

pp. 163-183 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Richard Walker

Keyword(s):

Race And Class

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Dangerous Warrants

10.31228/osf.io/wydeh ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Nirej Sekhon

Keyword(s):

Supreme Court ◽

Fourth Amendment ◽

Constitutional Rights ◽

Police Discretion ◽

Accurate Identification ◽

Race And Class ◽

The Supreme Court ◽

Local Courts ◽

State And Local ◽

Municipal Court

The Supreme Court has cast judicial warrants as the Fourth Amendment gold standard for regulating police discretion. It has embraced a "warrant preference" on the premise that requiring police to obtain advance judicial approval for searches and seizures encourages accurate identification of evidence and suspects while minimizing interference with constitutional rights. The Court and commentators have overlooked the fact that most outstanding warrants do none of these things. Most outstanding warrants are what this article terms "non-compliance warrants": summarily issued arrest warrants for failures to comply with a court or police order. State and local courts are profligate in issuing such warrants for minor offenses. For example, the Department of Justice found that the municipal court in Ferguson, Missouri issued one warrant for every two of its residents. When issued as wantonly as this, warrants are dangerous because they generate police discretion rather than restrain it. Nonetheless, the Supreme Court has, most recently in Utah v. Strieff, treated non-compliance warrants as if no different from the traditional warrants that gave rise to the Fourth Amendment warrant preference. This article argues that non-compliance warrants pose unique dangers, constitutional and otherwise. Non-compliance warrants create powerful incentives for the police to conduct unconstitutional stops, particularly in poor and minority neighborhoods. Their enforcement also generates race and class feedback loops. Outstanding warrants beget arrests and arrests beget more warrants. Over time, this dynamic amplifies race and class disparities in criminal justice. The article concludes by prescribing a Fourth Amendment remedy to deter unconstitutional warrant checks. More importantly, the article identifies steps state and local courts might take to stem the continued proliferation of non-compliance warrants.

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The sins of the father: an historical analysis of race and class equality in educational resource allocation and the implications for future educational technology distribution

10.31274/rtd-180813-10508 ◽

1997 ◽

Author(s):

Patricia Randolph Leigh

Keyword(s):

Resource Allocation ◽

Educational Technology ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Educational Resource ◽

Race And Class

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