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Cars and Jails

- Dreams of Freedom, Realties of Debt and Prison
Af: Julie Livingston, Andrew Ross Engelsk Paperback

Cars and Jails

- Dreams of Freedom, Realties of Debt and Prison
Af: Julie Livingston, Andrew Ross Engelsk Paperback
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“Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year.”
— Malcolm X (a former auto worker)

Written in a lively, accessible fashion and drawing extensively on interviews with people who were formerly incarcerated, Cars and Jails examines how the costs of car ownership and use are deeply enmeshed with the U.S. prison system.

American consumer lore has long held the automobile to be a “freedom machine,” consecrating the mobility of a free people. Yet, paradoxically, the car also functions at the cross-roads of two great systems of entrapment and immobility– the American debt economy and the carceral state.

Cars and Jails investigates this paradox, showing how auto debt, traffic fines, over-policing, and automated surveillance systems work in tandem to entrap and criminalize poor people. The authors describe how racialization and poverty take their toll on populations with no alternative, in a country poorly served by public transport, to taking out loans for cars and exposing themselves to predatory and often racist policing.

Looking skeptically at the frothy promises of the “mobility revolution,” Livingston and Ross close with thought-provoking ideas for a radical overhaul of transportation.

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“Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year.”
— Malcolm X (a former auto worker)

Written in a lively, accessible fashion and drawing extensively on interviews with people who were formerly incarcerated, Cars and Jails examines how the costs of car ownership and use are deeply enmeshed with the U.S. prison system.

American consumer lore has long held the automobile to be a “freedom machine,” consecrating the mobility of a free people. Yet, paradoxically, the car also functions at the cross-roads of two great systems of entrapment and immobility– the American debt economy and the carceral state.

Cars and Jails investigates this paradox, showing how auto debt, traffic fines, over-policing, and automated surveillance systems work in tandem to entrap and criminalize poor people. The authors describe how racialization and poverty take their toll on populations with no alternative, in a country poorly served by public transport, to taking out loans for cars and exposing themselves to predatory and often racist policing.

Looking skeptically at the frothy promises of the “mobility revolution,” Livingston and Ross close with thought-provoking ideas for a radical overhaul of transportation.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 200
ISBN-13: 9781682193495
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1682193497
Kategori: Etniske minoriteter og multikulturelle studier
Udg. Dato: 12 jan 2023
Længde: 16mm
Bredde: 191mm
Højde: 151mm
Forlag: OR Books
Oplagsdato: 12 jan 2023
Forfatter(e): Julie Livingston, Andrew Ross
Forfatter(e) Julie Livingston, Andrew Ross

Kategori Etniske minoriteter og multikulturelle studier

ISBN-13 9781682193495

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 200

Udgave

Længde 16mm

Bredde 191mm

Højde 151mm

Udg. Dato 12 jan 2023

Oplagsdato 12 jan 2023

Forlag OR Books

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