{"product_id":"cars-and-jails","title":"Cars And Jails","description":"\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\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\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\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\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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313100005758,"sku":"NW9781682193495","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781682193495.jpg?v=1778590957","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/cars-and-jails","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}