Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 6 hours; research, 1 hour; term paper, 2 hours
Catalog page 499
Prerequisites: MCS 010 with a grade of C- or better; or consent of instructor
Description: Course offers a historical, analytical, and theoretical examination of the cultural formation of criminalization and incarceration in the United States. Contextualizes the US carceral regime’s roots in the cultural-political structures of racial chattel slavery, land conquest, settler colonization, and the statecraft of anti-Black violence.