question archive Please read Ruth Wilson Gilmore, "Prisons and Class Warfare" ENTIRELY
Please read Ruth Wilson Gilmore, "Prisons and Class Warfare" ENTIRELY
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Please read Ruth Wilson Gilmore, "Prisons and Class Warfare" ENTIRELY. Then answer the following 4 questions THOROUGHLY.
Please use this link to read the reading, as you will need it in order to answer the questions. Please use information from the reading to answer them: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3954-prisons-and-class-warfare-an-interview-with-ruth-wilson-gilmore
1. What are the four surpluses? Give an example of each (be descriptive and provide details, don't just name the example).
2. How did the four surpluses come together to create mass incarceration? (Be sure to define what Gilmore means by "the prison fix.")
3. What does it mean to say that "social welfare agencies... have absorbed some of the surveillance and punishment missions of the prison system"? How does this relate to "repurposing big government" in Murakawa?
4. How, according to Gilmore, do prisons relate to "class warfare" and class-based political organizing?
