Often carceral studies tends to focus on the prison as a mode of stationary confinement, sometimes forgetting that its rationales and practices are based crucially in movement. This is especially true for black populations disproportionately affected by mass incarceration and intentionally disoriented to the causes and manifestations of the oscillation to which they are reduced. This article is concerned with the carceral landscape that emerges in the criminalization of black people and politics through the legal concept of vagrancy, and how, in turn, black surreptitious movement is used to contest incarceration. To do so, it argues that vagrancy paraphrases a suppression of black political practice, focusing on political prisoner Assata Shakur’s transnational escape to Cuba and its discursive omission in her autobiography. In tracing the transience of Shakur, the article forwards vagrancy as an elaboration of how anti-blackness materializes via carceral geographies by way of displacement, disorientation, and forced movement. It presents a reformulation of Shakur’s escape as disincarceration, which takes seriously the flight toward black liberation as one that is still meaningfully incomplete, elaborating the significance of a continual absconding from the field of representation that has been controlled and constituted by discursive and material hegemonies of race.

通常，对监狱的研究倾向于将监狱作为固定监禁的一种方式，有时会忘记监狱的基本原理和做法是基于运动的。对于受大规模监禁影响不成比例，有意迷失方向的黑人人口来说，尤其如此。本文关注的是通过流浪的法律概念将黑人定罪和政治定罪时出现的监狱状况，以及如何反过来利用黑人秘密运动来对抗监禁。为此，它认为流浪是对黑人政治实践的压制，其重点是政治犯阿萨塔·沙库（Assata Shakur）的跨国逃亡到古巴及其自传中的歧义遗漏。在跟踪Shakur的瞬变过程时，本文提出了流浪行为，以详细阐述如何通过位移，迷失方向和强制移动等方式在食道地理区域实现反黑性。它提出了重新形式化Shakur的逃亡作为监禁的形式，这严重地导致了向黑人解放的逃亡，而逃亡仍然是有意义地不完整的，阐述了不断逃离代表领域的重要性，该领域已由话语权和物质霸权控制和构成种族。