BLST 094A. Student Run: Freedom Dreaming: Black Radical Insurgency and Abolitionist Imaginings

Students Fighting for Transformative Justice, Abolition, and Revolution (STAR) cultivates campus spaces that find ways in which we can join the global fight to abolish the carceral state. The goal of this student-designed and student-run course is to provide members of STAR and the greater Swarthmore College student sphere with foundational understandings of the carceral state, how it maintains hegemony, and its relationships to racial capitalism, western imperialism, transformative justice, and abolition. Additionally, the course will seek to engage students with histories of resistance and present-day movements for abolition, both inside and outside prison walls. This course will allow its participants to devise a more fine-tuned vision for a world where power is reinstilled to the people- where justice is synonymous with accountability, restoration, transformation- a world not only absent of the carceral state, but teeming with life-affirming institutions and freedom. 
1 credit.
Eligible for BLST
Fall 2023. Johnson.
Catalog chapter: Black Studies  
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/black-studies-program/courses


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