Gender Studies 333PN - Mass Incarceration in the US

Since the 1970s, the United States has engaged in the most massive expansion of a prison system in modern history. Scholars have called the current era of U.S. imprisonment "mass incarceration" to mark the systematic imprisonment of black, Latina/o, and native people, poor people, and some LGBT populations. This course will examine the political, economic, and social conditions that produced mass incarceration as well as its ongoing material effects. We will also analyze mass incarceration and the prison as a site of social, racial, gender, and sexual formation. To do so, the course will center on black feminist and queer analysis.

Prereq: GNDST-101.