Write a paper on Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
https://cominsitu.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/gilmore-ruth-wilson-golden-gulag-2007.pdf
Rachel Kushner, Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind. New York Times (April 17, 2019).
By Wednesday, read the following sections of Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California: Prologue: The Bus (p. 1-4); Chapter 1: Introduction (p. 5-29).
you should post a comment on our discussion thread for the Prologue and Introduction of Golden Gulag. Your comment should be 250-500 words long. You can comment on anything that you found interesting, important, confusing, or controversial in the reading for this week.
