Read Chapter 1: How Arrested Mobility Is Created Through Polity and Policy from Charles Brown's book, Arrested Mobility:
Overcoming the Threat to Black Movement
https://islandpress.org/books/arrested-mobility#desc
"Arrested Mobility reminds one of a bar from Goodie Mob’s ‘Cell Therapy’, ‘But every now and then, I wonder if the gate was put up to keep crime out — or keep our ass in.’ Brown’s book deftly gives language to a condition, a cancer he calls it, that Black folks in the United States have lived with since the 1600s — the control of Black mobility. Brown destroys all arguments that the violence, brutality and fear Black people experience while walking, running, biking, driving or riding public transit are isolated incidents, and reveals them as extensions of a gripping legacy and purposeful policy. Arrested Mobility is a must read for anyone looking to more deeply understand racial housing patterns, wealth curtailment, or the pervasiveness of segregation. In a world where the powerful are literally