This book shows how black urban movements from the racialized working-class districts of Paris develop collective place-making strategies in their anti-racist mobilizations, beyond calls for recognition or collective identity formation. These modalities of collective action - from the disruption of racist and carceral geographies through the appropriation of public and semi-public space, the creation of self-made infrastructures for evicted families, to the organization of multi-racial resistance to policing - unfold as socialities that shape anti-racist organizing against state racism, policing, and structural abandonment. They open the horizon for new formations of political blackness and abolitionist politics, beyond Paris and beyond Europe.

This book shows how black urban movements from the racialized working-class districts of Paris develop collective place-making strategies in their anti-racist mobilizations, beyond calls for recognition or collective identity formation. These modalities of collective action - from the disruption of racist and carceral geographies through the appropriation of public and semi-public space, the creation of self-made infrastructures for evicted families, to the organization of multi-racial resistance to policing - unfold as socialities that shape anti-racist organizing against state racism, policing, and structural abandonment. They open the horizon for new formations of political blackness and abolitionist politics, beyond Paris and beyond Europe.