Comments on: Fostering Racism https://contemporaryracism.org/3139/fostering-racism/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Thu, 12 May 2016 20:41:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Joe Rorem https://contemporaryracism.org/3139/fostering-racism/comment-page-1/#comment-713 Thu, 12 May 2016 20:41:41 +0000 http://contemporaryracism.org/?p=3139#comment-713 That was one of most impactful aspects of the podcast process for me, learning about how Black kids stay in foster care so much longer than White kids. I think applying the Goff et al. article really helped me make sense of this, looking deeply at the dehumanization of Black children. Specifically with regards to estimations of age, which we discussed in the podcast, the article helps to illuminate some of the factors at work here.

Ginelle, glad you had those reactions. It’s intense to see that foster care is basically mass incarceration acting at the child level. Those parallels were a very important part of our podcast, and especially of my personal research and paper.

]]> By: ginellewolfe1 https://contemporaryracism.org/3139/fostering-racism/comment-page-1/#comment-707 Tue, 10 May 2016 21:46:48 +0000 http://contemporaryracism.org/?p=3139#comment-707 I completely agree! I hadn’t known much about the foster care system, but hearing your podcast and how you tied in mass incarceration helped me see so many parallels. Using my understanding of systemic racism to understand the foster care system was very helpful and I think your podcast did a great job of establishing that connection. It also helped me realize that mass incarceration has even more effect than we might have thought.

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