CHID 480 A: Special Topics: Advanced Study of the History of Ideas

"COLONIAL CARCERAL LOGICS IN THE AMERICAS" (VLPA) THIS COURSE ANALYZES THE EMERGENCE OF THE CARCERAL STATE THROUGH A COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK. IT LINKS CARCERAL LOGICS TO COLONIAL PROCESSES ACROSS THE ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND SPANISH AMERICAS. TAKING UP FOUCAULDIAN THEORIES OF EXPULSION AND CONFINEMENT, STUDENTS WILL READ PRIMARY TEXTS BY CRISTOBAL COLON, HERNAN CORTES, JACQUES CARTIER, AND SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN, AMONG OTHERS, TO EXAMINE HOW COLONIAL MAPS AND LEGISLATION MEDIATE EMERGENT CARCERAL WAYS OF THINKING. WE WILL PAY SPECIFIC ATTENTION TO THE ROLES OF GENDER, SEXUALITY, CLASS, AND RACE. STUDENTS WILL IDENTIFY THE LIMITS OF NATIONALIST RUBRICS WHILE DEVELOPING COMPARATIVE FRAMES FOR THINKING VARIATIONS AND CONTINUITIES IN CARCERAL HISTORIES AND PRACTICES.