Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago

by Rashad Shabazz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252081145
• ISBN13: 9780252081149
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"