Pulling from Chicago’s recent history, Engineered Conflict contends with Black peoples’ fight for humanity and the politics of disposability through housing instability, criminalization, and school closures. He argues that looking at all three together allows readers to see how state policies designate some neighborhoods as unviable and how disinvestment furthers a rationale to contain members of these communities. The books calls for a movement against the displacement and disinvestment of Chicago’s Black population.
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