Ruth Wilson Gilmore

2012 - Present

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a professor of geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and the author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Cultural Critic.  

 


"Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death."


- Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California