How Public Policy Impacts Racial Inequality by Josh Grimm Jaime Loke Robert Mann

Author:Josh Grimm, Jaime Loke, Robert Mann [Josh Grimm, Jaime Loke, Robert Mann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Public Policy, Social Science, Discrimination & Race Relations
ISBN: 9780807171691
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2019-05-08T04:00:00+00:00

CONCLUSION

Multiracial groups provide a case study for how race-conscious policies must evolve as we come to understand the complexity of the daily experience of racialization in the United States. Even this more complex understanding of how racialized experiences shape inequality remains incomplete; for example, we have largely discussed racialization processes in the United States as a whole, with little attention to the ways in which racialized experiences actually vary across the life course or across places. For example, multiracial youth and young adults are often treated as “exotic,” and there is great emphasis placed on their appearance and beauty, an emphasis that is often limited to the young. Similarly, groups are racialized differently in different regions of the country, with far more acceptance of multiracial identities in Hawaii than in the mainland United States, and with different beliefs about boundaries like the “one-drop rule” in the North than in the South. Texas is an unusual case because of its long history of a large and established Latinx community, its growing black community, and its placement at the boundary between the South and the Southwest, but these findings would undoubtedly vary across the country.

Despite its incomplete nature, however, this case study of experiences of multiracial groups in Texas points a way forward for designing new policy. If we design our race-conscious policies to incorporate multiple measures and understandings of race, rather than relying on a simple construct that assumes race is always obvious to all and falls neatly into simple, exclusive categories, we can design policies that can adequately address the variety of racialized experience today, and that are flexible enough to adapt to new experiences tomorrow. Directly asking applicants and respondents for the information we want (such as the types of discrimination they experience, for example, or how they are perceived by others) rather than assuming that self-identification maps directly and simply onto these experiences is a powerful corrective that would apply across many different types of groups, experiences, and social contexts.

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