In light of our museum's new exhibit, Captive State, The Shop is offering a selection of educational books handpicked by the exhibition's Curatorial team. Learn more about our newest exhibit below.
About the Exhibition:
Louisiana’s present-day distinction as the world’s incarceration capital is rooted in three centuries of history. Throughout this history, people in power have used systems of enslavement and incarceration to hold others captive for punishment, control, and exploitation. Black Louisianians have suffered disproportionately under these systems. Through historical objects, textual interpretation, multimedia, and data visualization, Captive State investigates these throughlines and arrives at an irrefutable truth: that the institutions of slavery and mass incarceration are historically linked.
Learn more about our museum's new exhibit, Captive State, below:
