BookPeople presents a talk with author Talitha L. LeFlouria on her book Searching for Jane Crow, followed by a book signing.
Talitha L. LeFlouria will be at BookPeople on Wednesday, August 12, to talk about her new book, Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block. The evening marks the book's release, and the talk is followed by a signing.
In Searching for Jane Crow, LeFlouria argues that the merger of profit and punishment keeps Black people bound. She traces the connection between enslavement and incarceration from the domestic slave trade of 1810–1865, through the post-Civil War era, and right up to the present day. It's a long view of how those two systems—the auction block and the cell block—have worked in tandem.
LeFlouria is an associate professor of history and the Mastin Gentry White Fellow in Southern History at The University of Texas at Austin. This is her second major book; her first, Chained in Silence, won several awards. She's also received an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, and her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, The Root, and Vox.
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The talk starts at 7 PM on the second floor of BookPeople, 603 North Lamar Boulevard, and runs about 45 to 60 minutes. It's free and open to the public, and since seating is first-come, first-served and not guaranteed, you'll want to get there early if you're hoping for a spot. There won't be a live stream or recording, so if you want to hear her talk about the book, you'll have to be there in person.
