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Legacies of Racialized Social Control

David Cunningham

Annual Review of Sociology2026https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-020224-050622article
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Research on legacies of racialized control recognizes and examines how historical violence continues to exert effects on contemporary inequalities. Focused predominantly on histories of enslavement and lynching in the US South, studies have demonstrated the continuing hold of these institutions on a wide range of racialized outcomes, including income inequality and poverty, violent crime, incarceration and other criminal legal consequences, political polarization, residential segregation, and educational and health disparities. Over the past two decades, the literature has matured significantly, evolving from studies demonstrating these durable temporal connections to more recent robust attention to a unified theoretical framework and the mechanisms that enable legacy effects to persist over long time periods. This review emphasizes recent refinements associated with parsing sources of persistent inequalities, accounting for interrelationships among modes of control, and identifying factors that interrupt as well as produce durable legacy effects. It concludes with recommendations to more directly engage the systemic nature of racialized control, take fuller advantage of leverage provided by expanding methodological foci, and thicken connections to parallel work in cognate fields.

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@article{david2026,
  title        = {{Legacies of Racialized Social Control}},
  author       = {David Cunningham},
  journal      = {Annual Review of Sociology},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-020224-050622},
}

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0.50

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