October 23, 2023: New Scholarly Books: A Seat at the Table

[It’s beena bit since I dedicated a blog series to highlighting great newscholarly books—so this week I’m dedicating a blog series to highlighting greatnew scholarly books. Please add more recommendations, new, old, and anywhere inbetween, in comments!]

Readers ofthis blog are already familiar with the awesome Dr. Hettie Williams, who hascontributed not one,not two,but threeexcellent Guest Posts (tying her for the all-time lead!). Which makes meeven more excited than I already would have been to highlight her phenomenalnew collection ASeat at the Table: Black Women Public Intellectuals in US History and Culture,co-edited with Melissa Ziobro and published by the University Press ofMississippi (and featuring a number of chapters by Hettie herself, among manyother awesome contributors including another AmericanStudies Guest Poster TanyaRoth). That a number of the chapters also intersect with my own recent andongoing work on AfricanAmerican critical patriotism is just the icing on the cake, and puts A Seat at the Table in conversation withother exemplary recent works like the 1619 Project. For all those and manyother reasons, this is my must-have Fall 2023 scholarly publication!

Next bookrec tomorrow,

Ben

PS. Whatdo you think? Other books or publications you’d recommend?