This article examines the forms of intergenerational kinship and care work that Black men perform within and beyond US prisons. First, I offer a historical conceptualization of domestic warfare as a multilayered process that targets Black radical activism, social/familial life, and the interiority of Black subjectivity. I argue that the rupturing of intimacy and familial relationships precipitated by the prison should be understood not as an incidental byproduct of a poorly designed carceral regime but as a tactic of war and a condition of genocide. Next, I theorize letter writing as an ethnographic and political modality that is part of a broader repertoire of strategies that Black men deploy to survive within and rebel against domestic war. I then draw on correspondence between myself and Absolute, an imprisoned Black man, as well as oral histories I collected with elders of New York's radical prison movement, to show how Black men care for each other, forge kinship networks, and transmit knowledge. I close by showing how Absolute carries on traditions of knowledge production and care to younger generations of captive Black men and by connecting this intergenerational practice to forms of collective rebellion. [prisons, kinship, Black masculinity, letters, warfare]

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国内战争下的囚禁、亲属和黑人男性关怀工作

本文考察了黑人男性在美国监狱内外进行的代际亲属关系和护理工作的形式。首先，我将国内战争的历史概念化为一个针对黑人激进激进主义、社会/家庭生活和黑人主体性的内在性的多层次过程。我认为，监狱造成的亲密关系和家庭关系的破裂不应被理解为设计不当的监狱制度的附带副产品，而是一种战争策略和种族灭绝的条件。接下来，我将信函写作理论化为一种民族志和政治形式，它是黑人为在国内生存和反抗国内战争而部署的更广泛战略的一部分。然后我利用自己和 Absolute 之间的通信，一个被监禁的黑人，以及我与纽约激进监狱运动的长辈们一起收集的口述历史，以展示黑人如何相互关心、建立亲属关系和传播知识。最后，我展示了 Absolute 如何延续知识生产和关怀年轻一代被俘黑人的传统，并将这种代际实践与集体反抗的形式联系起来。[监狱，亲属关系，黑人男子气概，信件，战争]