Course Info: CSI-0222

CourseCSI-0222 The Prison State
Long TitleRace and the Queer Politics of the Prison State
Term2019F
Note(s) Satisfies Distribution
Textbook information
Meeting InfoFranklin Patterson Hall 101 on from
FacultyStephen Dillon
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Distribution(s) Power, Community and Social Justice
Cumulative Skill(s)Multiple Cultural Perspectives
Additional InfoStudents are expected to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.
DescriptionThis course explores the history and politics of gender and sexuality in relation to the racial politics of prisons and the police. By engaging recent work in queer studies, feminist studies, transgender studies, and critical prison studies, we will consider how prisons and police have shaped the making and remaking of race, gender, and sexuality from slavery and conquest to the contemporary period. We will examine how police and prisons have regulated the body, identity, and populations, and how larger social, political, and cultural changes connect to these processes. While we will focus on the prison itself, we will also think of policing in a more expansive way by analyzing the racialized regulation of gender and sexuality on the plantation, in the colony, at the border, in the welfare office, and in the hospital, among other spaces, historical periods, and places.