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Spatializing Blackness : architectures of confinement and Black masculinity in Chicago

Title
Spatializing Blackness : architectures of confinement and Black masculinity in Chicago / Rashad Shabazz.
Author
Shabazz, Rashad, 1976-
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2015.

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Description
xiii, 159 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  • "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. Mining forgotten facts from sources as diverse as maps and memoirs, Rashad Shabazz explores the myriad architectures of confinement, policing, surveillance, urban planning, and incarceration. In particular, he investigates how the ongoing carceral effort oriented and imbued black male bodies and gender performance from the Progressive Era to the present. The result is an essential interdisciplinary study that highlights the racialization of space, the role of containment in subordinating African Americans, the politics of mobility under conditions of alleged freedom, and the ways black men cope with, and resist, spacial containment"--
  • "This project traces how architectures of confinement, policing, surveillance, migration, and mass incarceration orient and imbue Black male bodies and gender performance with the stigmata of carceral punishment. As the northern city with the largest 20th century influx of southern Blacks, Chicago provides a powerful case study to understand how urban planning, architecture, crowded living quarters, surveillance, and policing function to regulate Black men's bodies. Rashad Shabazz makes an important contribution to the growing work on Black (bodily) geographies and the complex entanglements between the emergence of the US prison regime (and prison industrial complex) and the densely historical complexities of Black subjectivity formation. By first illustrating how Black men's geographies have been delineated throughout the twentieth century in Black Chicago in spaces such as interracial sex districts, cramped kitchenettes, segregated house project, and prisons, Shabazz is then able to analyze and generalize the impact this mapping has had on the formation of Black masculinity, Black cultural production, and Black men's health in Black spaces beyond Chicago. Shabazz employs various methods (history, sociology, and literary criticism), theories (poststructuralism and critical theory), and disciplines (human geography, critical race studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and epidemiology) to highlight the importance of the racialization of space, the role of containment in subordinating Black people, the politics of mobility under conditions of 'freedom,' and to ultimately discuss how Black men resist spacial containment"--
Series Statement
The new Black studies series
Uniform Title
New Black studies series.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-153) and index.
Contents
Preface: Geographic Lessons -- Carceral Matters : An Introduction -- Policing Interracial Sex : Mapping Black Male Location in Chicago during the Progressive Era -- "Our Prison" : Kitchenettes, Carceral Power, and Black Masculinity during the Interwar Years -- Carceral Interstice : Between Home Space and Prison Space -- "Sores in the City" : A Genealogy of the Almighty Black P. Stone Rangers -- Ghost Mapping : The Geography of Risk in Black Chicago -- Epilogue: Fertile Ground
Call Number
Sc E 16-610
ISBN
  • 9780252039645 (hardback : acid-free paper)
  • 0252039645 (hardback : acid-free paper)
  • 9780252081149 (paper : acid-free paper)
  • 0252081145 (paper : acid-free paper)
  • 9780252097737 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2015006779
  • 40025220951
OCLC
907966288
Author
Shabazz, Rashad, 1976-
Title
Spatializing Blackness : architectures of confinement and Black masculinity in Chicago / Rashad Shabazz.
Publisher
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2015.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The new Black studies series
New Black studies series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-153) and index.
Local Subject
Black author.
Other Standard Identifier
40025220951
Research Call Number
Sc E 16-610
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