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“The relationship, both real and imagined, between rap music and the drug trade [in Puerto Rico] served as a justification for the policing of low-income and Black youth and did so through the same logics of contagion and practices of containment.” - @marisollebron

Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico The policing of underground rap, like the raids in public housing, reified and relied upon racialized and classed notions of crime, poverty, and spatial ordering, which led to further stigmatization, surveillance, and harm for the young people, particularly Black and dark-skinned men from low-income areas, who came to embody the threat of disorder. The policing of underground rap, like the raids in public housing, reified and relied upon racialized and classed notions of crime, poverty, and spatial ordering, which led to further stigmatization, surveillance, and harm for the young people, particularly Black and dark-skinned men from low-income areas, who came to embody the threat of disorder.
Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico
LeBrón, Marisol
ISBN-13: 9780520300170 / ISBN-10: 0520300173
University of California Press, 2019
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