The Transformative Justice minor provides a general introduction to an abolitionist framework and approach to responding to violence, harm, and abuse. The interdisciplinary program is an examination of how violence occurs within the context and conditions that perpetuate the cycle of violence. This orientation works to address and break generational cycles of trauma, marginalization, and harm. Transformative justice prioritizes responses that do not cause more violence and trauma to actively reduce harm and offers an alternative to state responses to violence as exemplified in the massive prison industrial complex. TJ is rooted in the work of indigenous communities, Black communities, immigrant communities of color, poor and low-income communities, communities of color, people with disabilities, sex workers, and queer and trans communities. The minor has three tracks: Generalist, Race Issues, and Global Issues.
Students will be able to:
1. Define and reflect on personal positionality
2. Interrogate and reimagine current institutional and structural practices within the context of historical knowledge
3. Contextualize American racial realities within the global system of racial hierarchy
4. Investigate the origins, history, and markers of whiteness and white supremacy
5. Examine the roots and impact of colonialism and the violence that is perpetuated as a result
6. Explore the ways in which systems such as schools, prisons, and governments perpetuate oppression and white supremacy
7. Organize and advocate to dismantle oppressive systems and create more just communities
For further Information, contact the Transformative Justice Minor Advisor.
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