Jacquline Jones is Professor of History Emerita at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (rev. ed., 2009) and A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America (2017), both of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize; and No Right to An Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era (2023), which won the Pulitzer Prize in History for 2024.