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Author Shabazz, Rashad, 1976- author.

Title Spatializing Blackness : architectures of confinement and Black masculinity in Chicago / Rashad Shabazz
Published Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 159 pages)
Series The new Black studies series
New Black studies series.
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
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
"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 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. A timely response to the massive upswing in carceral forms within society, Spatializing Blackness examines how these mechanisms came to exist, why society aimed them against African Americans, and the consequences for black communities and black masculinity both historically and today"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-153) and index
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject African American men -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Masculinity -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Architecture and society -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
Social control -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
Spatial behavior -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Masculinity -- Social aspects
African American men -- Social conditions
African Americans -- Social conditions
Architecture and society
Geography
Imprisonment -- Social aspects
Race relations
Social control
Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Chicago (Ill.) -- Geography
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject Illinois -- Chicago
Genre/Form Electronic book
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780252097737
0252097734