S.10 Prisons, Race, and Disability Justice

Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-9
T 4-7pm
Room 5-233
This course considers how contemporary state policing, incarceration, and social control of racialized populations in North America operates through health and disability discourses and practices. Drawing on the interdisciplinary field of carceral geography, this course will examine diverse spaces within and outside the conventional prison—including group homes, psychiatric facilities, outpatient commitment, and community supervision. Together we will study how racial-colonial violence is meted out through carceral techniques premised on recovery, rehabilitation, and support. How are logics of “care” used to justify captivity and punishment? Learning from Black, Indigenous, queer/trans, and “crip of color” (disabled people of color) critique and activisms, we will analyze “carceral care” to reconceptualize racial freedom and disability justice.
Lou Tam