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- Title
Welcome to My Cell: Housing and Race in the Mirror of American Democracy.
- Authors
Cuevas, Ofelia O.
- Abstract
The article discusses the notions of security and securitization in the context of the housing of U.S. racial minorities. Topics include the role of minorities as consumers of mortgages, the incarceration of minorities in the U.S., and the role of security in the neoliberal ideology that the author attributes to former U.S. President George W. Bush. Also addressed are the racialization of the body in modern politics, the ideological relation between personhood and property, and the creation of supermax prisons that isolate prisoners in the U.S.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DWELLINGS &; society; MINORITIES; ASSET backed financing; IMPRISONMENT; MINORITY prisoners; RACIALIZATION; NEOLIBERALISM; SUPERMAX units (Prisons); UNITED States social conditions
- Publication
American Quarterly, 2012, Vol 64, Issue 3, p605
- ISSN
0003-0678
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/aq.2012.0038