PRISON ABOLITION SYLLABUS 2.0 (WEEK 1-8)

WEEK 1: THEORIES AND ORIGINS OF PUNISHMENT

ARE PRISONS OBSOLETE BY ANGELA DAVIS

WEEK 2: RACE, SEX, LABOR, AND PRISONS IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC

CITY OF INMATES: CONQUEST, REBELLION, ANDTHE RISE OF HUMAN CAGING IN LOS ANGELES, 1771-1965 BY KELLY LYTLE HERNANDEZ.

WEEK 3: CONVICT LEASING, THE CHAIN GANG, AND CONTESTING THE SOUTHERN REGIME.

SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME: THE RE-ENSLAVEMENT OF BLACK AMERICANS FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO WORLD WAR 2 BY DOUGLAS BLACKMON.

WEEK 9: ANTICARCERAL FEMINISM

RESISTANCE BEHIND BARS: THE STRUGGES OF INCARCERATED WOMEN BY VIKKI LAW.

WEEK 10: EXPANDING THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

THE GOLDEN GULAG: PRISONS, SURPLUS, CRISIS, AND OPPOSITION IN GLOBALIZING CALIFORNIA BY RUTH WILSON GILMORE.

THE NEW JIM CROW: MASS INCARCERATION IN THE AGE OF COLOR BLINDNESS BY MICHELLE ALEXANDER.

WEEK 12: JUVENILE JUSTICE

BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: THE END OF JUVENILE PRISON BY NELL BERNSTEIN.

WRETCHED OF THE EARTH BY FRANZ FANON

BLACK RECONSTRUCTION BY W.E.B. DU Boris

CONDEMNED BY KEITH LAMAR

STUDY GROUP SCREENINGS BELOW

THE GREAT INCARCERATOR (pt.2)

3000 NIGHTS

CYNTOYA’S STORY

GHOST HUNTING ( DOHA FILM INSTITUTE)

NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY: 13th ( DIRECTED BY AVA DUVERNAY) KANDOO FILMS, 2016

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