[With the
semester done, this week I’ll be getting to work on the final revisions of my
forthcoming fourth book. More on that on Friday, but first, I wanted to
highlight briefly four new books in American Studies by colleagues and friends.
Check ‘em out and share your own book recommendations, please!]
I met André Carrington three years ago
while giving a book talk at Drexel
University, where he’s an Assistant Professor of English. In the years
since I’ve seen him become a vital scholarly voice across a number of
interdisciplinary fields: African American Studies, Queer Studies, American
Studies, Comics and Cultural
Studies, and more. He pulls all those threads and more together in his
first book, Speculative
Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction (2016). Can’t imagine
a more perfect summer read ahead of my next section of Introduction to Sci Fi
and Fantasy this fall—but whatever you’re teaching and whatever your interests,
I’m quite sure this book will have something to contribute to the conversation.
Next new book
tomorrow,
Ben
PS. Other books
(new or not) you’d recommend?
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