Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago (New Black Studies Series)
By Rashad Shabazz.
Description
Over 277,000 African Americans migrated to Chicago between 1900 and 1940, an influx unsurpassed in any other northern city. From the start, carceral powers literally and figuratively created a prison-like environment to contain these African Americans within the so-called Black Belt on the city's South Side. A geographic study of race and gender, Spatializing Blackness casts light upon the ubiquitous--and ordinary--ways carceral power functions in places where African Americans live. Moving from the kitchenette to the prison cell, and mining forgotten facts from sources as diverse as m...
ISBN(s)
0252081145, 9780252081149
