'Part of the novel Directions in Black Feminist Studies lecture,Professor Talitha LeFlouria (Florida Atlantic University), presented the talk "Living and Laboring off the Grid: Black Women Prisoners and the Making of the “Modern” South, and 1865-1920," on February 12, 2015. In this talk, or LeFlouria provided an in-depth examination of the lived and laboring experiences of imprisoned African-American women in the post-Civil War South,and record how black female convict labor was used to abet construct “novel South” modernity. LeFlouria is the author of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the novel South.'-- +UCLA CSW
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