LITERATURE + LECTURES

Holocaust Museum Houston presents The Age of Jim Crow, Wednesday, January 11, 6:30pm-8:30pm, in the museum's Albert and Ethel Herzstein Theater.

Dr. Jane Dailey, (pictured) associate professor of American history at the University of Chicago, will present a public lecture that examines Jim Crow America. Dailey will discuss the role of law in creating, maintaining and — ultimately — helping to undo segregation, as well as the effects of interracial sex and marriage as they shaped the era of Jim Crow.

Her book “The Age of Jim Crow” focuses throughout on sexuality and gender politics as they play out across the legal, social and economic, political and cultural arenas.

A graduate of Yale and Princeton, Dailey taught at Rice University and Johns Hopkins before joining the University of Chicago in 2006. Her first book, “Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia,” analyzed the conditions that facilitated and, ultimately, undid interracial democracy in the post-Civil War South. An edited collection, “Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights,” continued the theme of African American resistance to white domination from Reconstruction through the 1950s. A third book, “The Age of Jim Crow: A Norton Documentary History,” examines the creation and dissolution of legal segregation in America through primary sources.

The recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Academy in Berlin and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Dailey is currently finishing a book on race, sex and the civil rights movement from emancipation to the present.

Dailey’s lecture is underwritten by the Spector-Warren Fellowship for Future Educators, an annual program that works with students from Syracuse University as they prepare to enter the teaching profession.