[ this was our work for week 6 of winter quarter ]

WEDNESDAY

11:30am – 1pm ART LECTURE with Gilda Sheppard

viewing due

• Gilda Sheppard, Since I Been Down (105 min) – available in our “virtual screening room” starting at noon Friday 2/5 and ending at 5pm Wednesday 2/10

reading due

• Michelle Brown, “Prison Iconography: Regarding the Pain of Others” (2009: focus on pp. 50-58 + 77-83 = 14 pp.)
• Gilda Sheppard & Anthony Zaragoza, “Adult Education and Cooperative Entrepreneurialism” (2018; ~5 pp.)
• Rachel Kushner, “Is prison necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore might change your mind”  (2018; 14 pp.)
• bell hooks, “Ecstasy: Teaching and Learning without Limits” (1994; 7 pp.)
• Alex Vitale, “The school-to-prison pipeline” (2018; 20 pp.)

FRIDAY

2-4pm NEW PERSPECTIVES ON MASS INCARCERATION

reading due

• Ross Gay, “A small needful fact” (2015; 15 lines)
• David Peter Stroh, “Telling systems stories” (2015; 14 pp.)
• Heather Schoenfeld, “A New Perspective on the Carceral State” (2018; focus on first 14 pp.)
• Michelle Alexander, “Reckoning with Violence” (2019; ~5 pp.)
• Wendy Sawyer, “Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020” (2020; ~15 pp.)
• Lucius Couloute, “Getting Back on Course: Educational exclusion and attainment among formerly incarcerated people” (2018; ~10 pp.)
• John Clegg & Adaner Usmani, “The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration” (2019; ~25 pp.)