“So high you can't get over it, so low you can't get under it”: Carceral spatiality and black masculinities in the united states and south africa

Souls

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 276-294

  Shabazz, Rashad ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Black masculinity; Carceral space; Housing projects; Prison literature; Racism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898762293     PISSN: 10999949     EISSN: 15483843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10999940903088309     Document Type: Article

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