Yale Offering Course Comparing US Prison System To Those Of Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Communist China...
Starting this fall, Yale University will be offering a course comparing prison systems in the United States, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and Communist China in the 20th century. Led by professor of history Timothy Snyder and professor of philosophy Jason Stanley, "Mass Incarceration in the Soviet Union and the United States," sets out to investigate the role that mass incarceration played in both superpowers during the latter half of the 20th century.
"Incarceration is central to the understanding, if not usually to the self-understanding, of a society," reads a course description. "It is thus a crucial aperture into basic questions of values and practices."
Reading for the course will include first-person accounts from the Gulag and American prison, as well as scholarly works on mass incarceration. The course will also take account of prison systems in Nazi Germany and communist China...
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