{"product_id":"cars-and-jails-freedom-dreams-debt-and-carcerality-paperback","title":"Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt and Carcerality - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulie Livingston\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAndrew Ross\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Malcolm X (a former auto worker)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten in a lively, accessible fashion and drawing extensively on interviews with people who were formerly incarcerated, \u003cem\u003eCars and Jails\u003c\/em\u003e examines how the costs of car ownership and use are deeply enmeshed with the U.S. prison system.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCars and Jails\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking skeptically at the frothy promises of the \"mobility revolution,\" Livingston and Ross close with thought-provoking ideas for a radical overhaul of transportation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Ross\u003c\/strong\u003e is a social activist and professor at NYU, where he teaches in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Prison Education Program. Previously employed at Princeton University, he has held positions at Cornell, Rochester, Illinois and Shanghai universities. A native of Scotland, he has lived and worked in the U.S. since 1981, and in New York City since 1993. A contributor to the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAl Jazeera\u003c\/em\u003e, he is the author or editor of more than twenty books, and has published more than 200 articles in a variety of journals, magazines, and news outlets. He is a founding member of several movement groups, including the Gulf Labor Coalition, Decolonize This Place, Strike Debt, and the Debt Collective, and he is active in the Palestinian rights movement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJulie Livingston\u003c\/strong\u003e is Silver Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University. Her previous books include \u003cem\u003eSelf-devouring Growth: a Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa;\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eImprovising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic; and Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana.\u003c\/em\u003e The recipient of numerous awards and prizes, in 2013 Livingston was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. She is an active member of the NYU Prison Education Program Research Collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 5.9 x 7.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766199484704,"sku":"9781682193495","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9fc5686d2bc306aec067ebf3cb0a2e16_366e6e88-00cb-442a-8499-ba846b4d1184.webp?v=1780287380","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/cars-and-jails-freedom-dreams-debt-and-carcerality-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}