ABSTRACT

Research and official statistics alike identify women from racial minorities as a high-risk group for racial hate crime. Still, the construction of women in racial hate crime remains largely unstudied and the current knowledge on racial hate crime against women can at best be described as fragmentary. Therefore, aim of the present study is to explore the constructions of race and gender from the perspective of female victims of racial hate crime. The study draws on intersectional theory and consists of a discourse analysis based on nine interviews with women who have been targets of racial hate crime. The results show that the construction of race in hate crimes targeting women differs distinctively from the construction of race in hate crimes targeting men. The female victims of racial hate crime often find themselves entangled in racial power struggles between men: a power struggle in which men may show their status vis-á-vis out-group men by sexually controlling or abusing women. Thereby, women’s bodies are used as a tool in racial status conflicts between groups of men, as identities, scripts, and stereotypes found primarily within conservatism and right-wing ideology are enacted on the bodies of the victims.

摘要

研究和官方统计数据都将少数族裔女性确定为种族仇恨犯罪的高危人群。尽管如此，女性在种族仇恨犯罪中的构成在很大程度上仍未得到研究，目前关于针对女性的种族仇恨犯罪的知识充其量只能说是零碎的。因此，本研究的目的是从种族仇恨犯罪的女性受害者的角度探讨种族和性别的建构。该研究借鉴了交叉理论，包括基于对成为种族仇恨犯罪目标的妇女的九次访谈的话语分析。结果表明，针对女性的仇恨犯罪中的种族建构与针对男性的仇恨犯罪中的种族建构截然不同。种族仇恨犯罪的女性受害者经常发现自己卷入男性之间的种族权力斗争：在权力斗争中，男性可能通过性控制或性虐待女性来显示他们相对于外群体男性的地位。因此，女性的身体被用作男性群体之间种族地位冲突的工具，因为主要在保守主义和右翼意识形态中发现的身份、剧本和刻板印象在受害者的身体上得到体现。