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Jackie Wang
Jackie Wang is an American professor, author, and poet. She is best known for her books Carceral Capitalism, which critiques the relationship between the debt economy and racialized mass incarceration, and The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void, for which she was a National Book Award finalist in poetry in 2021. Her scholarship centers on the intersections of racism, liberal capitalism, surveillance technologies, and the political economy of prisons.
Jackie Wang grew up in New Port Richey, Florida. Her brother was incarcerated when she was 16. While in Florida she worked a number of minimum wage jobs, including as a hotel receptionist, and during this time Wang witnessed firsthand the class divisions in Florida which had been heavily exacerbated by the 2008 financial crisis.
Wang received a B.A. in Liberal arts from the New College of Florida in 2010. Later, Wang completed both an M.A. and Ph.D. in African and African American Studies at Harvard University in 2018 and 2020 respectively. Her Ph.D. advisor was Elizabeth Hinton.
She is a harpist.
Wang is an assistant professor of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is a prison abolitionist.
As a PhD candidate, Wang published her first nonfiction book, Carceral Capitalism, which examines the neoliberal, capitalist incentives to use prisons and other systems of incarceration to manage crisis, specifically with a focus on how race influences these processes. She considers topics including municipal finance, debt economies, and the concept of innocence in her analyses, combining both poetry and autobiography into passages. In an interview with Tank Magazine, she noted "I wasn’t simply positing mass incarceration as an effect of the economy, but I wanted to think about the relationship between what’s happening in the economic sphere and the carceral sphere. I also wanted to bridge two different ways of looking at anti-black racism." Her analysis in Carceral Capitalism has been compared to the work of Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
Her first full-length poetry collection The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry and the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. As with others works by Wang, the collection is focused on dreams and dreaming, taking her own dreams as inspiration. A reviewer for The Nation noted, “If there is a formula to what she does throughout the course of this book, it is taking us out of our world and then placing us back in it, changed.”
Her 2023 autobiographical book - Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Encyclopedia of Extreme Girlhood - is a collection of Wang's writing from sources including blog posts in the early 2000s and zines.
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Jackie Wang
Jackie Wang is an American professor, author, and poet. She is best known for her books Carceral Capitalism, which critiques the relationship between the debt economy and racialized mass incarceration, and The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void, for which she was a National Book Award finalist in poetry in 2021. Her scholarship centers on the intersections of racism, liberal capitalism, surveillance technologies, and the political economy of prisons.
Jackie Wang grew up in New Port Richey, Florida. Her brother was incarcerated when she was 16. While in Florida she worked a number of minimum wage jobs, including as a hotel receptionist, and during this time Wang witnessed firsthand the class divisions in Florida which had been heavily exacerbated by the 2008 financial crisis.
Wang received a B.A. in Liberal arts from the New College of Florida in 2010. Later, Wang completed both an M.A. and Ph.D. in African and African American Studies at Harvard University in 2018 and 2020 respectively. Her Ph.D. advisor was Elizabeth Hinton.
She is a harpist.
Wang is an assistant professor of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is a prison abolitionist.
As a PhD candidate, Wang published her first nonfiction book, Carceral Capitalism, which examines the neoliberal, capitalist incentives to use prisons and other systems of incarceration to manage crisis, specifically with a focus on how race influences these processes. She considers topics including municipal finance, debt economies, and the concept of innocence in her analyses, combining both poetry and autobiography into passages. In an interview with Tank Magazine, she noted "I wasn’t simply positing mass incarceration as an effect of the economy, but I wanted to think about the relationship between what’s happening in the economic sphere and the carceral sphere. I also wanted to bridge two different ways of looking at anti-black racism." Her analysis in Carceral Capitalism has been compared to the work of Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
Her first full-length poetry collection The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry and the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. As with others works by Wang, the collection is focused on dreams and dreaming, taking her own dreams as inspiration. A reviewer for The Nation noted, “If there is a formula to what she does throughout the course of this book, it is taking us out of our world and then placing us back in it, changed.”
Her 2023 autobiographical book - Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Encyclopedia of Extreme Girlhood - is a collection of Wang's writing from sources including blog posts in the early 2000s and zines.
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