"Bordering Blackness is an ethnography of the "EurAfrican border"-the transnational migration regime that spans the Mediterranean and much of the African continent. Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen analyzes the experiences of West and Central African migrants moving through or stuck in Morocco to understand the space and subject-making capacity of borders beyond territory and citizenship. Gross-Wyrtzen utilizes critical scholarship on the political economy of borders and Black geographies insights about the co-constitution of race and space to theorize the racial and economic logics that organize the border across various sites, and to historicize these logics in the longue durée of African captivity, commodification, and racial othering. The book relocates borders from the edges of territories and the spectacle of formal border enforcement (walls and fences, militarized police) to urban spaces and informal governance. Furthermore, it challenges critical theorizations of borders that privilege European political theories of sovereignty, citizenship, and resistance, instead turning to postcolonial and Black geographic scholarship to locate border projects in larger efforts to define and delimit the boundaries of the human"-- Provided by publisher.