From Plantations to Prisons: Policing, Carcerality, and Abolition

Catalog description

Provides a critical perspective on current patterns of policing and mass incarceration in the United States and beyond. The course examines the historical roots and ideological justifications for police and prison and how notions of crime and order shape the ways we understand and justify and justify anti-Black policing policies. Focuses on fighting-crime strategies (such as one-strike, zero tolerance and the war on drugs) and their deepening of social vulnerabilities along gender, race, sexuality and class lines. Engages with abolitionist responses to neoliberal carcerality and its prison industrial complex.