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The Racialization of Latino Immigrants in New Destinations: Criminality, Ascription, and Countermobilization

Hana E. Brown, Jennifer A. Jones, Andrea Becker
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2018, 4 (5) 118-140; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.06
Hana E. Brown
aAssociate professor of sociology at Wake Forest University
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Jennifer A. Jones
bAssistant professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame
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cPhD student in sociology at Vanderbilt University
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Abstract

This article analyzes patterns in Latino immigrant racialization in the U.S. South. Drawing on a unique dataset of more than 4,200 news stories from the region, we find that Latino immigrants face multifaceted racialization in the news media and that this racialization shares substantive similarities with African American racialization processes. The most dominant negative characterizations of Mexican and Latino immigrants focus on their perceived criminal tendencies. Claims of Latino criminality apply implicitly coded racial language about black criminality to new Latino arrivals. A close qualitative analysis of these trends reveals an ongoing cycle of racialization in which immigration foes challenge Latino or Mexican immigrants as criminal elements and immigration advocates respond with charges of racism and discrimination. Supplemental analyses from four African American newspapers suggest that black elites perceive Latinos as sharing a common experience of racial discrimination at the hands of whites.

  • race
  • immigration
  • South
  • Latinos
  • criminalization
  • racialization
  • © 2018 Russell Sage Foundation. Brown, Hana E., Jennifer A. Jones, and Andrea Becker. 2018. “The Racialization of Latino Immigrants in New Destinations: Criminality, Ascription, and Countermobilization.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(5): 118–40. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.06. The authors would like to thank Felicia Arriaga, Ann Hollingsworth, Christina Lawrence, Robert Reece, and Nura Sediqe for their research assistance. Funding for this research was provided by a Russell Sage Presidential Authority Award (#88-14-05) and grants from the National Science Foundation (SES-1728780), University of Notre Dame, and Wake Forest University. The first two authors are equal co-authors, listed in alphabetical order.

Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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Hana E. Brown, Jennifer A. Jones, Andrea Becker
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Aug 2018, 4 (5) 118-140; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.06

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Hana E. Brown, Jennifer A. Jones, Andrea Becker
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Aug 2018, 4 (5) 118-140; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.06
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