AF AMER CM166Future of Work in Decarcerated California
African American Studies · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Same as Labor Studies M124.) Limited to students in Community Scholars program. Exploration of scope of employment and nature of jobs that are attached to current system of mass incarceration in California, with focus on Los Angeles county. Study of history and evolution of carceral system and its relationship to oppression of Black people, poor, and other stigmatized groups. Exploration of history of employment discrimination against Black workers and how successful demand for unionized government jobs (public sector work) evolved as anti-discrimination remedy. Investigation of work, especially by people of color, in existing carceral regimes, and its impact on individual worker wellness and community well-being. Examination of tension between racial justice agendas to decarcerate California and those to prevent downward mobility of workers of color recruited by state to carry out failed policies of war on drugs. Concurrently scheduled with course C266.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
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AF AMER CM166
- AF AMER CM166BFuture of Work in Decarcerated California II: Applied Research and Policy Analysis for Implementation of Justice Transformation
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