Hate-crimes as racial violence

A Critique of the Exceptional

Bibliographic Data

ID3978394
AuthorsJames A Tyner (Kent State University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume17
Issue8
Pages1060-1078
Publication date2016-11-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2016.1152392
OpenAlexW2288211709
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited64

Violence on the one hand is taken as something natural and normal. On the other hand, certain violent actions, such as hate-crimes, are portrayed as forms of exceptional violence, while systemic inequalities are rendered ordinary. In this paper, I de-naturalize the concept of violence through a critical evaluation of hate-crimes. I argue that the concept of hate-crimes has been, or is at risk, of being co-opted by a more sustained effort to ignore and downplay racial inequalities in society. Drawing on the philosophical distinction between ‘killing’ and ‘letting die’, I contend that an exclusive focus on individual-based hate-crimes deflects attention from the systemic, structural inequalities of society; and that a narrow conceptualization of violence (as direct, intentional action) conforms to a more expansive neoliberal promotion of a ‘race-blind’ or ‘colour-blind’ criminal justice system

Action (physics · Argument (complex analysis · Conceptualization · Criminology · Expansive · Hate crime · Inequality · Political science · Race (biology · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Race, History, and American Society

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