Join historians Bridget Keown and James Robinson, with Sociologist Mia Renauld, as we are joined by Dr. Rashad Shabazz, who stopped by Northeastern University to promote his new book, Spatializing Blackness Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago". We talk about Dr. Shabazz's academic path and making connections between international carceral containments before arriving at racialization of carceral power in Chicago, and how it manifests from slavery to schools. He explores how masculinity is performed in poor black spaces.
Rashad Shabazz is an associate professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He received his bachelor’s degree in political science and philosophy from Minnesota State University-Mankato, a master’s degree from the Department of Justice & Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, and a doctorate in the History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
For further reading: "Spatializing Blackness" by Rashad Shabazz https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25404003-spatializing-blackness?ac=1&from_search=true
"City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles" by Mike Davis https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/484028.City_of_Quartz
Schools Under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education edited by Torin Monahan and Rodolfo D. Torres https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7048854-schools-under-surveillance?from_search=true
"Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison" by Michel Foucault https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80369.Discipline_and_Punish?from_search=true
"Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Y. Davis https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108428.Are_Prisons_Obsolete_?ac=1&from_search=true
"Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California" by Ruth Wilson Gilmore https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111975.Golden_Gulag?ac=1&from_search=true
"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6792458-the-new-jim-crow?ac=1&from_search=true
"Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary" by Dennis Childs https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23508133-slaves-of-the-state?ac=1&from_search=true
"From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America" by Elizabeth Hinton https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27311802-from-the-war-on-poverty-to-the-war-on-crime?ac=1&from_search=true
"Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318431.Long_Walk_to_Freedom?from_search=true
"Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson" by George Jackson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/962568.Soledad_Brother?ac=1&from_search=true
"Assata: An Autobiography" by Assata Shakur https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100322.Assata?ac=1&from_search=true
"Live from Death Row" by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/449916.Live_from_Death_Row?ac=1&from_search=true
Dillon Rodriguez: http://ethnicstudies.ucr.edu/people/faculty/rodriguez/
"Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys" by Victor Rios https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11155862-punished?ac=1&from_search=true
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