Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago (New Black Studies)
Spatializing Blackness explores how architecture and urban space shape Black masculinity and experiences of confinement in Chicago. Drawing on Black Studies and architectural perspectives, Rashad Shabazz examines the relationship between race, gender, and the built environment in an interdisciplinary study of the city.
About This Book
Spatializing Blackness examines the relationship between architecture, confinement, and Black masculinity in Chicago.
The book places the city’s built environments at the center of an inquiry into how space shapes experiences of Blackness.
Bringing together architectural and Black Studies perspectives, it considers the social meanings attached to confinement and urban space.
This work offers an interdisciplinary contribution to conversations about Chicago, masculinity, architecture, and the spatial dimensions of race.
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