aspaceforblackrage: Carceral Geographies, Past and Present. With the inauguration of this new series, I want to push the followers of this blog to think about what would happen if we reread carceral geographies as a different sort of archive. What more might it reveal  about the stakes of mass incarceration and the carceralization of the quotidian geographies of black communities? If on the national level, mass incarceration directly responded to the sedimented history of fearful white responses to “the mob”, “the riot”, and after 1965, “urban disorder”, what do local and vernacular carceral installations tell us about  black social worlds on a smaller scale, beyond well rehearsed tropes of the “violent 70s” and the “crack 80’s”? What can we read about black lives in urban America, refracted through the security cameras and the barbed wire? What was at stake in a period after a wide smattering of organizations claimed and attempted to carve alternative geographies, nested in scale from the body, through “chocolate cities,” and up through the meta-geographies of womanist/feminist internationals, and the “Third World?”

aspaceforblackrage:

Carceral Geographies, Past and Present.

With the inauguration of this new series, I want to push the followers of this blog to think about what would happen if we reread carceral geographies as a different sort of archive. What more might it reveal  about the stakes of mass incarceration and the carceralization of the quotidian geographies of black communities? If on the national level, mass incarceration directly responded to the sedimented history of fearful white responses to “the mob”, “the riot”, and after 1965, “urban disorder”, what do local and vernacular carceral installations tell us about  black social worlds on a smaller scale, beyond well rehearsed tropes of the “violent 70s” and the “crack 80’s”? What can we read about black lives in urban America, refracted through the security cameras and the barbed wire? What was at stake in a period after a wide smattering of organizations claimed and attempted to carve alternative geographies, nested in scale from the body, through “chocolate cities,” and up through the meta-geographies of womanist/feminist internationals, and the “Third World?”

aspaceforblackrage: Carceral Geographies, Past and Present. With the inauguration of this new series, I want to push the followers of this blog to think about what would happen if we reread carceral geographies as a different sort of archive. What more might it reveal  about the stakes of mass incarceration and the carceralization of the quotidian geographies of black communities? If on the national level, mass incarceration directly responded to the sedimented history of fearful white responses to “the mob”, “the riot”, and after 1965, “urban disorder”, what do local and vernacular carceral installations tell us about  black social worlds on a smaller scale, beyond well rehearsed tropes of the “violent 70s” and the “crack 80’s”? What can we read about black lives in urban America, refracted through the security cameras and the barbed wire? What was at stake in a period after a wide smattering of organizations claimed and attempted to carve alternative geographies, nested in scale from the body, through “chocolate cities,” and up through the meta-geographies of womanist/feminist internationals, and the “Third World?”

aspaceforblackrage:

Carceral Geographies, Past and Present.

With the inauguration of this new series, I want to push the followers of this blog to think about what would happen if we reread carceral geographies as a different sort of archive. What more might it reveal  about the stakes of mass incarceration and the carceralization of the quotidian geographies of black communities? If on the national level, mass incarceration directly responded to the sedimented history of fearful white responses to “the mob”, “the riot”, and after 1965, “urban disorder”, what do local and vernacular carceral installations tell us about  black social worlds on a smaller scale, beyond well rehearsed tropes of the “violent 70s” and the “crack 80’s”? What can we read about black lives in urban America, refracted through the security cameras and the barbed wire? What was at stake in a period after a wide smattering of organizations claimed and attempted to carve alternative geographies, nested in scale from the body, through “chocolate cities,” and up through the meta-geographies of womanist/feminist internationals, and the “Third World?”

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