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2 results foundAuthor: Thusi, I. India Title: Radical Feminist Harms on Sex Workers Summary: Sex work has long been a site for contesting sexuality, womanhood, race, and patriarchy. Its very existence forces us to examine how we think about a very controversial topic – the commodification of sex. This controversy is evident in the feminist legal scholarship, where there have been substantial debates between radical feminists, who advocate for the eventual abolition of sex work and criminalization of the purchasers of sex, and other feminists, who argue that sex workers should have the autonomy to sell sex. Radical feminists are particularly concerned with the structural harms of sex work and have formed alliances with groups that oppose sex work due to moralistic reasons. Like radical feminism, this Article considers the structural harms of sex work in assessing whether it should be criminalized. However, this Article arrives at a very different conclusion and challenges the radical feminist approach to sex work, by arguing that the harms of any form of criminalization, particularly to individuals with intersectional identities, are overlooked in much of the radical feminist literature on sex work. This Article incorporates empirical research from nearly two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Johannesburg, South Africa, to illustrate the ways that criminalizing any aspect of the sex work transaction, including the demand-side, is problematic. The Article also considers the ways that race and overcriminalization should be factored in ways that are often missing from the literature. By recognizing that some sex workers face the effects of multiple systems of oppression and that the criminal justice system has often been a source of oppression for these individuals, this Article argues that decriminalization should be the favored approach for those interested in improving the lives of sex workers. Moreover, the essentialist framing of the harms of sex work in the radical feminist literature is itself a reproduction of patriarchy and white supremacy, often silencing the voices and experiences of sex workers of color. Details: Unpublished paper, 2016. 61p. Source: Internet Resource: California Western School of Law Research Paper No. 17-13, Accessed May 23, 2018 at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2856647 Year: 2016 Country: South Africa URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2856647 Shelf Number: 150336 Keywords: Critical Race TheoryFeminist Legal Theory Prostitution Sex Workers |
Author: Capers, I. Bennett Title: Afrofuturism, Critical Race Theory, and Policing in the Year 2044 Summary: In 2044, the United States is projected to become a "majority-minority" country, with people of color making up more than half of the population. And yet in the public imagination-from Robocop to Minority Report, from Star Trek to Star Wars, from A Clockwork Orange to 1984 to Brave New World - the future is usually envisioned as majority white. What might the future look like in year 2044, when people of color make up the majority in terms of numbers, or in the ensuing years, when they also wield the majority of political and economic power? And specifically, what might policing look like? This Article attempts to answer these questions by examining how artists, cybertheorists, and speculative scholars of color-Afrofuturists and Critical Race Theorists-have imagined the future. What can we learn from Afrofuturism, the term given to "speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns [in the context of] techno culture?" And what can we learn from Critical Race Theory and its "father" Derrick Bell, who famously wrote of space explorers to examine issues of race and law? What do they imagine policing to be, and what can we imagine policing to be in a brown and black world? Details: New York: Brooklyn Law School, 2019. 58p. Source: Internet Resource: Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 586: Accessed April 25, 2019 at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3331295 Year: 2019 Country: United States URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3331295 Shelf Number: 155511 Keywords: African AmericansBig DataCritical Race TheoryFourth AmendmentPolicingSurveillance |