Racist policing and surveillance, meanwhile, turned Black public housing into what Shabazz (2015) calls an ‘interstitial space’ between the community and the prison.īut public housing, precisely because it concentrates residents oppressed by class and race, is also a site of racialised class struggle. In the United States, public housing was intentionally segregated along racial lines for much of its history, while the siting of new developments reinforced racial segregation and opened new terrains of accumulation elsewhere in the city. This remains the case even when the direct profit motive is removed – when housing is ‘public’. Under racial capitalism, urban housing is necessarily an arena of capital accumulation and racial management. Akira Drake Rodriguez, Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2021 268 pp.: ISBN: -5951-9, US$114.95 (hbk) ISBN: -5952-6, US$36.95 (pbk)
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