AMST-375 Race and Incarceration (3)

Focusing on the role of race, sex, class, and ethnicity in shaping our nation’s current incarceration crisis, this course takes a historical approach to understanding America’s current prison practices and the experiences of incarcerated people from the colonial era and slavery to the present. It examines how and why local, state, and federal practices of incarceration changed over time, and explores the role that racism and racial assumptions played in shaping carceral institutions, definitions of crime, and prison experiences. Usually Offered: fall.