| Title: | History of Mass Incarceration |
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| Course Section Number: | HIS-340-01 |
| Department: | History |
| Description: | HIS-340-01 = BLS-300-01 = PSC-210-03 : Race, Gender, Class and Punishment in America: A History of Mass Incarceration. The more than two million people incarcerated in the United States, constitute the largest prison population in the world. African Americans and Latinos comprise a disproportionate number of these prisoners and female imprisonment has outpaced men by 50% since 1980. (The Sentencing Project) The "prison industrial complex" has produced enormous profits for private prison corporations, growing deficits for state and local governments, and social crises in those communities targeted by systematic policing and imprisonment. It has also generated public and scholarly debates about the history, ethics, and function of mass incarceration. This course will examine the evolution of the "prison industrial complex" in the United States, from its antecedents in slavery and in the prison systems of the nineteenth-century, to the rise of mental institutions and prisons for profit during the twentieth-century. Throughout the course we will consider the relationship of race, gender, class and punishment at various moments in American history. Course readings will draw on the work of historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and lawyers, and will incorporate various experiential activities and other prisms through which to evaluate the culture of prison and punishment in American society. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 22, 2019 |
| End Date: | December 15, 2019 |
| Meeting Information: |
10/28/2019-12/04/2019 Lecture Monday, Wednesday 02:10PM - 03:25PM, Baxter Hall, Room 201
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| Faculty: | Thomas, Sabrina |
| Requisite Courses: | Prerequisite: One previous credit in History |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 15 |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 8 |
| Calculated Course Status: | OPEN |
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