Talitha L. LeFlouria is one of the nation’s leading authorities on the history of Black women, mass incarceration, and the legacies of American slavery. She is an associate professor of history, the Mastin Gentry White Fellow in Southern History at The University of Texas at Austin, and author of the multi-award-winning book Chained in Silence. Dr. LeFlouria has received awards for her research, including an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, and her work has been featured in The Atlantic, the Washington Post, Ms., The Root, and Vox.
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