Call Number | 13125 |
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Day & Time Location |
M 4:10pm-6:00pm 420 Hamilton Hall |
Points | 4 |
Grading Mode | Standard |
Approvals Required | None |
Instructor | Matthew Sandler |
Type | SEMINAR |
Method of Instruction | In-Person |
Course Description | This course will follow the idea of abolition as expressed first through the eighteenthand nineteenth-century struggle to end chattel slavery in the Americas, and then as it has come to define the struggle against over-policing and mass-incarceration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In the first half of the class, we will consider abolition in England and its colonies, Haiti, Cuba, and the U.S. In so doing we will examine both primary sources from abolitionist print culture (narratives by fugitives from slavery, speeches, poems, and polemical tracts), as well as secondary sources by historians, literary critics, and political theorists. In the second half, we will likewise read writing by activists (some incarcerated or formerly incarcerated, and some not) alongside journalism and scholarship from the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of carceral studies. Across both periods, Black writers will take up the bulk of our attention. |
Web Site | Vergil |
Department | Ethnicity and Race, Center for |
Enrollment | 12 students (18 max) as of 8:07PM Monday, November 4, 2024 |
Subject | Ethnicity and Race, Center for Study of |
Number | GU4005 |
Section | 001 |
Division | Interfaculty |
Section key | 20241CSER4005W001 |