#ScholarSunday thread 154

Published on November 19, 2023

Here it is, my 154^th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share more below & enjoy, all! #twitterstorians

First, a reminder that I’m now also sharing these threads on my newsletter:

Gonna start where I did last week, with more vital writing on Gaza, including @Hind_Gaza for @theintercept on Gaza’s Trail of Tears:

https://theintercept.com/2023/11/12/gaza-evacuation-hind-khoudary/

Here’s @_vajra for their website on their forthcoming “dark science fiction epic,” Gaza, & why art is always political:

https://vajra.me/2023/11/08/every-throne-will-fall/

Moving & important essay from @anthroprofhage for @allegra_lab on whether & how we can intellectualize Gaza (h/t @melnickjeffrey1):

https://allegralaboratory.net/gaza-and-the-coming-age-of-the-warrior/

For the forthcoming third issue of @HammerandHope, the great Michelle Alexander reflected on why & how we have to break our silences:

https://hammerandhope.org/article/michelle-alexander-palestine

On a different but still related note, for the latest installment of her newsletter @gvaughnjoy offered a personal & political review of the Hunger Games films:

Solidarity Above Circuses

& on colonialism in an American context, @MaggieBlackhawk’s forward to the new @HarvLRev is a must-read (h/t @samuelmoyn):

https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-137/the-constitutionalism-of-american-colonialism/

Turning to other current events, here’s @tzimmer_history on what’s really happening in college classrooms & campuses:

In Defense of My Students

Wonderful short essay from New York Public Library Page Claire Charvet for @nypldance on dance & banned books:

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2023/11/08/dance-performances-conversation-banned-books

& here’s @bleachbred for his @Medium column on the recent election results & the rejection of the MAGA agenda:

https://medium.com/the-polis/november-7-2023-liberal-progressive-victories-a-galvanized-electorate-andthe-rejection-of-a-bd3b2b7b5ec6

For @TheGuardian, @ted_widmer interviewed the great Eric Foner on the 14^th Amendment & the 2024 election (h/t @WakeRevolt):

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/nov/15/eric-foner-14th-amendment-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Lots more great public scholarly writing this week, including @arimeta_d for @VanityFair on National Book Awards finalist @aaliyahbilal (h/t @Reighangillam):

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2023/11/aaliyah-bilals-portraits-of-american-life?fbclid=IwAR2FsbJ1SCJK_2Ove_SHz5lehNRV_pIsbK7v3R_xuXXIU5OIwSfyRhLHwBE

@TrulyTafakari wrote for @TheAtlantic on photographer Elbert D. Howze’s vital documentation of Houston’s Fourth Ward:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/12/elbert-d-howze-freedmens-town-houston/675808/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true-anthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

For his latest @BaltimoreHist article, @EmmanuelMehr wrote about the important place of brickmaking in the city’s histories:

https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/city-of-bricks-bricks-and-early-baltimore

While @SmithsonianSec wrote for @TheAtlantic’s “On Reconstruction” project about why America can’t be scared of Black history (h/t @InThePastLane):

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/12/freedmens-bureau-act-project-records/675807/

Speaking of the Smithsonian, check out the new @NMAAHC “Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past” project with @SmithsonianDPO:

https://twitter.com/NMAAHC/status/1724454350875959397?s=20

For another great new digital project, here’s @jharrisfuture using Google Maps to measure continents & prejudices (h/t @WalterDGreason):

https://twitter.com/jharrisfuture/status/1724247158025515049?s=20

Finally, check out this excellent Amerasia Journal forum on Asian American History & Its Publics, featuring @CCenizaChoy @AmySueyoshi @chinotronic & more:

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EHHCCEFXER4GS7WF8S25/full?target=10.1080/00447471.2023.2277105

Lots of excellent new podcast episodes this week, including the latest @Unsung__History featuring @wintersjohnc on the Haudenosaunee Confederacy:

https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/haudenosaunee/

The new episode of @axelbankhistory features @dougmelville on his book The Invisible Generals from @AtriaBooks:

https://twitter.com/EvanAxelbank/status/1724596678055821614?s=20

For the Graphic Possibilities podcast, @JulianChambliss talked with @WalterDGreason & @Dieselfunk about their Graphic History of Hip Hop:

https://graphicpossibilities.hcommons.org/podcasts/

Also make sure to check out @WalterDGreason & @danianjerry on the radio in a couple hours on how hip hop can help challenge disinformation & propaganda:

https://twitter.com/NormanBRadio/status/1725606994747212204?s=20

Great new @LostWomenofSci episode on Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first Black woman to receive an MD (h/t @WalterDGreason & @jimdowns1):

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/americas-first-black-female-physician-cared-for-patients-from-cradle-to-grave/

I’m very excited for @DorothyERoberts’ new podcast from @MsMagazine, based on her book Torn Apart:

https://twitter.com/DorothyERoberts/status/1724911854869180508?s=20

Finally, check out the last episode in @kjavadizadeh’s Close Reading’s series on Louise Glück, featuring Ellen Bryant Voigt, Lanny Hammer, & @athenek:

https://twitter.com/kjavadizadeh/status/1722969519600058464?s=20

Lots more great work for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory this week, including @MikeDavisNoNot1 on government shutdowns:

https://time.com/6326996/government-shutdown-history-2/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=248700079

Here’s Benjamin Allison for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on how 1970s diplomatic failures helped set the scene for Gaza today:

https://time.com/6336602/israel-palestinian-peace-carter-history/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=248994824

Elizabeth Varon wrote for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory on what Civil War history tells us about the 14^th Amendment & Trump:

https://time.com/6333998/insurrection-clause-trump-longstreet/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=248469221

Finally for @TIMEHistory’s @madebyhistory, here’s Christopher M. Gleason on the surprising political evolution of polyamory in America:

https://time.com/6331379/polyamory-history/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=_&linkId=247988209

While elsewhere for @TIME, @soulistaphd reviewed the important new @Netflix film on the great Bayard Rustin:

https://time.com/6337107/bayard-rustin-civil-rights-organizing-blueprint-netflix/

The @BlkPerspectives Forum on Womanist Theology continued this week, starting with @blk_herstory on Maria W. Stewart:

https://www.aaihs.org/maria-w-stewart-and-a-womanist-theological-tradition/

@roseram72 wrote for the @BlkPerspectives Forum on Alice Walker, color theory, & the “purple perspective”:  

https://www.aaihs.org/womanist-theology-and-the-purple-perspective/

Here’s Joshua Ro for the @BlkPerspectives Forum on how the womanist imagination can liberate us from colorblind positivism:

https://www.aaihs.org/womanist-imagination-and-liberation-from-the-politics-of-colorblind-positivism/

While Jaimie D. Crumley wrote for the @BlkPerspectives Forum on what it means to enter wilderness archives:

https://www.aaihs.org/a-womanist-dancing-mind-in-wilderness-archives/

& finally for the @BlkPerspectives Forum on Womanist Theology, @ADorianMT wrote on Black women’s intellectual movements:

https://www.aaihs.org/womanist-theology-and-a-black-womans-intellectual-movement/

Some important new books were published this week, including @juliairwin’s Catastrophic Diplomacy from @UNC_Press:

https://twitter.com/juliairwin/status/1724229794542354546?s=20

Also out this week is @blackleftaf’s Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States from @UChicagoPress:

https://twitter.com/blackleftaf/status/1724435616740295143?s=20

@RebeccaRennerFL’s much-anticipated Gator Country is also now out, from @Flatironbooks (h/ @JanklowUK)

https://twitter.com/JanklowUK/status/1724378495990571448?s=20

& likewise published this week was @ElinevanOmmen’s Nicaragua Must Survive from @ucpress (h/t @TanyaHarmer):

https://twitter.com/TanyaHarmer/status/1725451105906168143?s=20

Now available for pre-order is @AnaRMinian’s In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the US from @penguinrandom:

https://twitter.com/AnaRMinian/status/1724489249423249595?s=20

& to check out another vital forthcoming book, here’s a sample of @imeanswhatisays’ Stay Black & Die from @DukePress:  

https://twitter.com/DukePress/status/1724434460723036276?s=20

Gonna end with a few more favorites from the week, including @reproutopia in @thedrift_mag on the devolution of The Little Mermaid (h/t @BklynInstitute):

https://www.thedriftmag.com/can-the-sireniform-speak/?utm_content=buffer1a6d6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

For @PublicBooks’ Hacking the Culture Industries series, check out J.D. Porter, Angelina Eimannsberger, James English, May Hathaway, & Ashna Yakoob on Romance (h/ @dan_sinykin):

https://www.publicbooks.org/genre-juggernaut-measuring-romance/

Here’s @ScottSandage for @CommonplaceJrnl on the “x-ray method” for achieving a sustainable “book-life balance” (a worthy goal for us all):

https://commonplace.online/article/how-to-read-a-book/

& compelling stuff from @stefanfatsis for @Slate on the controversies surrounding Scrabble’s new word list, featuring @bgzimmer:

https://slate.com/culture/2023/11/scrabble-word-list-controversy-slurs-mistakes.html

Finally, as usual @DrDionGeorgiou’s Stop, Look, & Listen newsletter offers lots more great public scholarship for your reading pleasure:

Stop, Look, and Listen (13.11.23)

PS. I’m sure I missed plenty as ever, so please share more public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the last week & beyond. Thanks, happy reading, listening, & learning, & may this week be a thankful & restful one! #twitterstorians