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... Reflecting on the ideas of sociologist Tukufu ­Zuberi, she explained that racial categories continue to be used to justify structural racism and White supremacy, but much survey research still includes a variable for race without consideration for what that measure represents. Second, she observed that survey research often promotes meth­ odological individualism, which emphasizes the study of individuals or groups who experience oppression and discrimination rather than the study of the racist systems that oppress, discriminate, and create inequities.
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... Boen discussed another common approach used to measure structural racism that focuses solely on markers of disparities and discrimination in particular institutional domains, which can conceal other forms and con­ sequences of racial violence, racist social control, and structural racism. Thus, she encouraged researchers to also consider how overall levels of ex­ ploitation, violence, exclusion, and social control can reflect the structural racism that affects social inequities.
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... NOVEL APPROACHES TO ADMINISTRATIVE AND CROWD-SOURCED DATA Frank Edwards (assistant professor of criminal justice at Rutgers Uni­ versity) described his interest in using descriptive methods and novel data to quantify the social distribution of state violence in both historical and contemporary ways.
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