Dr. Rashad Shabazz (Associate Professor in African American studies and geography at Arizona State University) walks us through how urban planning and policing social relations are mobilised to create spaces and policies of confinement and carcerality to contain Black communities in the South Side of Chicago. We talk about the role of carceral urbanism in making Black masculinity, grassroots urban initiatives in the South Side, the emergence of MCs, Rap & Hip Hop music as the voice of the corner, and the construction of neighbourhood identity and representation. 

Songs credits:

“My City - Common”

“Diddy Bop - Noname (feat. Cam O’bi & Raury)”

“U.N.I.T.Y. - Queen Latifah”