The New Jim Crow

As previously announced, USF School of Law will be having a conference on immigrant workers on February 27.  My panel is entitled “The Meaning of Immigrant Worker — Drawing Parallels Between Chattel Slavery and U.S. Immigration Policy” and includes Gerald Neuman (moderator), Devon Carbado (UCLA), and Rhonda Magee (USF).  Here is an abstract of my draft remarks:

My talk is not about slavery per se. It instead begins with the forms of racial subordination and labor control that followed slavery. My modest hope is to draw some parallels between Jim Crow and the segregation of the labor markets along immigration status lines today. In both Jim Crow and modern times, we see separate labor markets for subordinated communities. The civil rights concerns of African Americans seeking to dismantle Jim Crow and those of immigrants today are by no means identical. However, the similarities warrant our attention and offer important lessons relevant to the pursuit of social change.

Here is a draft of my remarks.  Download usf_ccomments1.wpd

KJ