Bridges Inside Discussion October 2024
Event description
Chair(s)
Jedidiah EvansÂ
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.
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