Ebook: Spatializing blackness: architectures of confinement and black masculinity in Chicago
Author: Shabazz Rashad
- Tags: African American men--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions--20th century, African American men--Social conditions, Architecture and society, Architecture and society--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century, Masculinity--Social aspects--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century, Race relations, Space (Architecture)--Social aspects, Space (Architecture)--Social aspects--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century, History, African American men -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century, Mascu
- Series: New Black studies series
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- City: Chicago (Ill.);Illinois;Chicago
- Language: English
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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.
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