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.
From this Episode
Books Discussed:
Spatializing Blackness by Rashad Shabazz
Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary by Dennis Childs
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Schools Under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education
Eds. Torin Monahan and Rodolfo D. Torres
Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys by Victor Rios
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