Aida’s Reviews > Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago > Status Update

"Policing helped Nootbaar, a first-generation immigrant from Germany, shore up his own racial identity through reinforcing racist heteronormative masculinity. By placing boundaries around white women's sexuality and using policing as a tool to do so, Nootbaar was able to shed his ethnic identity and enter whiteness."

"Green spaces remake the ground that decades of carceral enclosure built, and they show that poor and working-class people can transform their geographies on their own terms."

"By "prisonize" I mean that techniques and technologies of prison punishment-policing, containment, surveillance and the establishment of territory, the creation of frontiers-functioned in the quotidian space of Black Chicago."