Racial capitalism and firearm violence: Developing a theoretical framework for firearm violence research examining structural racism

被引:2
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作者
Uzzi, Mudia [1 ]
Whittaker, Shannon [2 ]
Esposito, Michael H. [3 ]
Dean, Lorraine T. [4 ]
Buggs, Shani A. [5 ]
Porter, Keshia M. Pollack [1 ]
机构
[1] Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Hlth Policy & Management, 750 East Pratt St,15th floor, Baltimore, MD 21202 USA
[2] Yale Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Social & Behav Sci, New Haven, CT USA
[3] Univ Minnesota, Dept Sociol, Minneapolis, MN USA
[4] Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Epidemiol, Baltimore, MD USA
[5] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Emergency Med, Davis, CA USA
关键词
ECONOMIC SEGREGATION; HEALTH RESEARCH; NEIGHBORHOOD; PLACE; RACE; DISADVANTAGE; BALTIMORE; STIGMA; GEOGRAPHY; EQUITY;
D O I
10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117255
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
Despite the early promise of centering structural racism in explanatory models of firearm violence, there are noticeable gaps in what's been produced thus far; in particular, a deeper and more serious engagement with longstanding theories of racism is needed to further enrich our understanding of how structural inequalities produce unequal burdens of firearm-related harms. Thus, building on theories and concepts from a range of academic fields and Black philosophical perspectives, we developed a theoretical framework to help explain the role of place-based structural racism on firearm violence disparities. A central component of our framework is the concept racial capitalism, which contends that racial exploitation and the accumulation of assets depend on and reinforce one another. In this article, we present our framework and highlight how two processes related to racial capitalism-racialized dispossession and racialized spatial stigma-are connected with geographic disparities in firearm violence. We also present the results of an ecological cross-sectional study that reveals a potential key association between racial capitalism and firearm violence disparities on the neighborhood-level. We used a structural intersectionality approach and descriptive epidemiological methods to highlight and quantitatively describe spatial firearm violence disparities that could potentially be linked to the varying exposure of two dimensions of racial capitalism-historical redlining and contemporary racialized subprime mortgage lending. We found that sustained disadvantaged census tracts (tracts that were historically redlined and experienced higher contemporary subprime lending) experienced the highest burden of firearm violence in Baltimore City between 2015 and 2019. Our research suggests that racial capitalism could potentially be a root cause of firearm violence disparities. A theoretical framework based on racial capitalism can inform the development and usage of indicators and analytic methods for racism-related firearm violence research. Moreover, this framework can identify factors to prioritize in equity-based violence prevention policies and programs.
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