Rashad Shabazz

Rashad Shabazz is associate professor of African & African American Studies at Arizona State University. His academic expertise brings together human geography, cultural studies, gender studies and critical race studies. His research explores how race, gender, and cultural production are informed by geography. His book, Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago (2015) examines how carceral power within the geographies of Black Chicagoans shaped urban planning, housing policy, policing practices, gang formation, high incarceration rates, masculinity and health.