Death Row Lessons: Angola, Willie Francis, and Imprisoned Radical Intellectualism in Ernest Gaines’s 'A Lesson Before Dying' – a Lecture by Patrick Elliot Alexander

Patrick Elliot Alexander, Ph.D. '12, an associate professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi presents "Death Row Lessons: Angola, Willie Francis, and Imprisoned Radical Intellectualism in Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying" in the Moyle Room of the Karsh Alumni and Visitor Center. The lecture was organized by the Department of African & African American Studies which is celebrating its 50th anniversary of Black Studies at Duke University. Alexander is the author of From Slave Ship to Supermax: Mass Incarceration, Prisoner Abuse, and the New Neo-Slave Novel.