{"product_id":"cars-and-jails-julie-livingston-9781682193495","title":"Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt and Carcerality","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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julie Livingston, Andrew Ross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1682193497\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682193495\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e OR Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.90h x 7.30w x 0.60d","brand":"Julie Livingston","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44067645980927,"sku":"9781682193495","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b146d39d-1fe4-42fb-b220-815f3ff28cc5.jpg?v=1685414485","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cars-and-jails-julie-livingston-9781682193495","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}