Addressing a need for carceral geographical research conducted from inside prison gates, we discuss the spatial context in which racialisation occurs, including its relationship to the performance of prison “politics”. We argue that the convoluted and contentious racial categorisation of prison inmates that begins with “racial priming” and results in “racial sorting” possesses a spatial logic derived from institutional partitioning and street-level cordoning of individual and group identities. We reveal how racialisation is relied upon through both a self-segregation and institutional classification system at the micro scale. Based on autoethnographic reflection as formerly jailed and incarcerated individuals, and through a reading of sociological, criminological, and geographical literatures, we argue that the logic of everyday micro-scale racial identity formation has more to do with location, gang alliances, antagonisms, and the necessary navigating of prison “politics” and protocol than with conceptualisations of “race” engendered by racial capitalism and enforced by the racial state.

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监狱大门内的监狱地理：日常种族化的微观政治

为了满足在监狱大门内进行监狱地理研究的需要，我们讨论了种族化发生的空间背景，包括其与监狱“政治”表现的关系。我们认为，从“种族启动”开始并导致“种族分类”的监狱囚犯的复杂和有争议的种族分类具有源自机构划分和街道级别的个人和群体身份封锁的空间逻辑。我们通过微观尺度的自我隔离和制度分类系统揭示了种族化是如何被依赖的。基于对以前被监禁和监禁的个人的自我民族志反思，并通过阅读社会学、犯罪学和地理文献，