Join Jarvis McInnis, in conversation with Autumn Womack, assistant professor of African American Studies and English at Princeton University, to discuss his new book Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South.

His first book-length monograph, Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South (2025, Columbia University Press), charts an alternative cultural and intellectual genealogy of Black modernity by centering Booker T. Washington’s school, the Tuskegee Institute, as a crucible of black transnational and diasporic relations between southern African American and Caribbean writers, intellectuals, and cultures in the early twentieth century. 

Jarvis C. McInnis is an Associate Professor of English at Duke University. A native of Gulfport, Mississippi, he is a proud summa cum laude graduate of Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi, where he earned a B.A. in English, and Columbia University in the City of New York, where he earned a Ph.D. in English & Comparative Literature.

This event is presented by Princeton University's Department of African American Studies and co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books.