Milwaukee’s Disregarded Population

Wells, Lenard

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“…Milwaukee’s hypersegregated Black neighborhoods have been harmed disproportionately by deindustrialization and urban disinvestment since the 1970s, while the City has pursued a “creative city” development strategy that fosters greater economic and racial polarization (Schmidt, 2011; Zimmerman, 2008). High Black infant mortality rates have only been addressed by the City in the past few years, in response to Black community leaders’ appeals and community direct action calling for City policy changes with respect to not only Black infant mortality but also related problems of disinvestment and joblessness, cuts to public transit and public education, and racist policing and incarceration (Levine, 2013; Wells, 2013). Nevertheless, the City is hampered by its limited tax base and by its embeddedness in the state of Wisconsin and the concomitant limits to city-scale interventions (Holifield and Zupan, 2014).…”

Section: Infant Mortality In Milwaukee: Health Welfare Reform and Tmentioning

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Whose reproductive futures? Race-biopolitics and resistance in the Black infant mortality reduction campaigns in Milwaukee

Sziarto

2016

Environ Plan D

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This paper contributes to Foucauldian population geographies by examining an infant mortality reduction campaign in Milwaukee. The infant mortality rate for Milwaukee’s Black community is about three times that for whites and higher than rates for other racialized groups. This paper asks how Milwaukee’s public health interventions came to focus on sleep deaths, when population data show that preterm birth and congenital abnormalities are the leading causes of all infant deaths in the city, and the greatest contributor to the racial gap. The City of Milwaukee Health Department and partners drew on contradictory biopolitical logics and practices: On one hand, they located the problem of the “gap” in particular segregated neighborhoods-in-crisis, and on the other hand, they used an ostensibly “race-blind” strategy of promoting safe sleep environments. These spatializations together shifted blame for the crisis onto “failing” parents, especially Black parents. Tracing instances of resistance through the development and implementation of the campaign suggests possibilities for an anti-racist biopolitics.

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Section: Infant Mortality In Milwaukee: Health Welfare Reform and Tmentioning

confidence: 99%

Whose reproductive futures? Race-biopolitics and resistance in the Black infant mortality reduction campaigns in Milwaukee

Sziarto

2016

Environ Plan D

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Analyzing discrimination in recruitment: A guide and best practices for resume studies

Adamovic

2020

Int J Selection Assessment

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Resume studies are natural field experiments in which researchers standardize the content of resumes and vary them by individual characteristics. Researchers submit the resumes to job advertisements and compare the employers' responses toward the different resumes to measure labor market discrimination. Despite the robustness of this method, its use has not been fully exploited in human resource management and organizational psychology research. Based on a literature review, we provide an overview of the best practices for resume studies and a step‐by‐step plan to guide researchers. We also explain challenges in the design and implementation of these studies and how they can be addressed. Finally, we suggest avenues for future research and how future studies can contribute to reduce hiring discrimination.

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Comparative Perspectives on Racial Discrimination in Hiring: The Rise of Field Experiments

Quillian

Midtbøen

2021

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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This article reviews studies of discrimination against racial and ethnic minority groups in hiring in cross-national perspective. We focus on field-experimental studies of hiring discrimination: studies that use fictitious applications from members of different racial and ethnic groups to apply for actual jobs. There are more than 140 field experimental studies of hiring discrimination against ethno-racial minority groups in 30 countries. We outline seventeen empirical findings from this body of studies. We also discuss individual and contextual theories of hiring discrimination, the relative strengths and weaknesses of field experiments to assess discrimination, and the history of such field experiments. The comparative scope of this body of research helps to move beyond micromodels of employer decision-making to better understand the roles of history, social context, institutional rules, and racist ideologies in producing discrimination. These studies show that racial and ethnic discrimination is a pervasive international phenomenon that has hardly declined over time, although levels vary significantly over countries. Evidence indicates that institutional rules regarding race and ethnicity in hiring can have an important influence on levels of discrimination. Suggestions for future research on discrimination are discussed. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 47 is July 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Milwaukee’s Disregarded Population

Cited by 3 publications

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Whose reproductive futures? Race-biopolitics and resistance in the Black infant mortality reduction campaigns in Milwaukee

Whose reproductive futures? Race-biopolitics and resistance in the Black infant mortality reduction campaigns in Milwaukee

Analyzing discrimination in recruitment: A guide and best practices for resume studies

Comparative Perspectives on Racial Discrimination in Hiring: The Rise of Field Experiments

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