Tight Packers

Tight Packers takes its inspiration from a 19th century term used to refer to a method for packing slaving vessels that relied on forcing as many people as possible into the hold of the ship to maximize profit at port. The practice was ill conceived as the crowded conditions made the ships breeding grounds for pestilence and disease. Olufani re-appropriated the term here to refer to the disproportionate number of black and brown men confined in U.S. prisons.