[It’s been a while since I shared a series on scholarly books I’ve had the pleasure of checking out recently, and for this latest iteration I wanted to highlight recent reads that have offered inspiration in these very tough times!]
One of the
best things about my more than five years collecting
and sharing public scholarship through my #ScholarSunday
threads (every one of which is available in that Google Doc) has been the
chance to connect to voices and work that’s not traditionally academic, and
that reminds us that “academic” is only one of many frames or starting points
for scholarship. Exemplifying that idea is Arianne Edmonds’s We
Now Belong to Ourselves: J.L. Edmonds, The Black Press, and Black Citizenship
in America (2025), a book written by its main subject’s great-great
granddaughter which features personal narratives of her own identity, family
story, and journey through the archives but also offers an analytical and
profoundly public scholarly lens on what this early 20th century
Black journalist reveals about his own time period and our own alike. In this
Thanksgiving post from last year, I highlighted how a groundbreaking work
of experimental narrative history helped inspire my podcast and my own
continued evolution as a public scholar, and Edmonds’s equally groundbreaking book
is sure to do the same as I move forward with that work.
Next recent
read tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What
do you think? Recent reads you’d share?
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