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POLS 337 - From Slavery to Prisons: Race and the Carceral State

4.00 credit hours
The United States incarcerates more people than any other nation and Black people are disproportionately affected by this punitive system known as ‘the carceral state’. This course traces the development of the carceral state from slavery to convict leasing to the Civil Rights Era and finally to the War on Drugs. It considers the varied ways that Black people have resisted the carceral state throughout these periods. In doing so, this course emphasizes the relationship between punitive policy, institutional development, race-making and the politics of resistance.

Prerequisite(s): POLS 101  or POLS 203 .
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Social Sciences, U.S. Power Structures.
iCon(s): Challenging Inequity.


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