Chair(s)

Jedidiah Evans 

Texts

Tommie Shelby, The Idea of Prison Abolition (2022), Chapter 3

Jimmy Santiago Baca, A Place to Stand (2001)

This session will examine the functional critique of imprisonment alongside a personal account of time inside a maximum-security prison. The session will start with Shelby’s treatment of anti-prison critique grounded in Marxist and critical theory. Dr Jedidiah Evans (English) will then lead a conversation on Jimmy Santiago Baca’s prison memoir which details Baca’s life before, during, and immediately after his imprisonment. 

Readings will be sent to participants upon registration.