{"id":61524,"date":"2021-09-19T02:51:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T02:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61524"},"modified":"2021-09-20T16:56:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T16:56:59","slug":"historian-of-race-in-america-gets-an-unusual-four-book-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61524","title":{"rendered":"Historian of Race in America Gets an Unusual Four-Book Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Historian of Race in America Gets an Unusual Four-Book Deal<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2021-09-16<\/p>\n

Jennifer Schuessler<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nMartha S. Jones<\/a> said she was already working on the first book, which she said will have an element of family history as well. Johns Hopkins University<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Martha S. Jones, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, will write four books for Basic Books<\/a>, starting with an exploration of the history and legacy of slavery\u2019s sexual violence.<\/em><\/p>\n

The historian Martha S. Jones<\/a> has a nose for writing deeply researched histories that land in the middle of the rough and tumble of our national politics \u2014 sometimes deliberately, sometimes not.<\/p>\n

\u201cBirthright Citizens<\/a>,\u201d her 2018 scholarly study of the history of 19th-century debates about Black citizenship in America<\/a>, arrived at a moment<\/a> when some conservatives had floated the idea of ending the 14th Amendment\u2019s<\/a> guarantee that all people born in America are automatically citizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cVanguard<\/a>,\u201d a political history of Black women that challenged popular narratives of the suffrage movement<\/a>, was timed to coincide with the centennial of the 19th Amendment<\/a> last August \u2014 but also happened to coincide with the election of Kamala Harris<\/a> as America\u2019s first female vice president.<\/p>\n

Now, Jones, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, has signed an unusual four-book deal with Basic Books<\/a> for a series of works that will address the tangled history of race, slavery and identity. And among them will be a \u201cmanifesto\u201d on the role of history in the current racial reckoning…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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