if you've been on my plurk a while sometimes i do u.s. history longplurks.

i'm not in a place atm where i can do blm coding/icon commissions (maybe in a week or two)? but i'm always good for book recs.

unfortunately academia is still pretty white and male but i've tried to note current scholarship's debt to earlier black scholars that academia ignored for several decades.

my major field is/was "us history through reconstruction" which is why this list ends where it does. nonetheless, i hope this gives you some angles if you were looking for reading material.

do you ,ind if I follow/add you for the long plurks?

man that is a good start for a reading list

Can you add Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom?

It's a good look at slavery with an approach that attempts to understand how slaves acted outside of what is commonly defined as "agency" - i.e. how they acted for survival, not just to free themselves.

I have Soul by Soul on there and honestly I figured people can follow that to his later work? I could swap them around I suppose.

Eyyy someone else taking this time to yell about U.S. History /o/

That works too.

And you're welcome to follow me but I don't know if I post enough history for it to be worthwhile, tbh. This is primarily my rp plurk.

man Saltwater Slavery is so good. although the jpeg artifacting on the cover is kinda...

I’ve been reading They Were Her Property after Lyn recommended it and it’s great too, for anyone interested in how white women upheld slavery

many good history books are ruined by bad academic cover designers it's true

Would Slavery in Indian Country confuse the issue at all or do you think there might be some value in that one as well?

Thank you for making this! I definitely want to check them out

and yeah further recs in this plurk and the comments are welcome.

I'll probably revise at some point after I've had a good sleep.

When the history of race and class in the U.S. comes up, I will always recommend Settlers by J. Sakai.

Thanks for these!

Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by robin bernstein is another excellent title, if definitely on the scholarly side. it's essentially about how the concept of "innocent child" hasn't been attached to all children equally since it started developing

if you've ever wondered about the disparity between how black children and teens are treated compared to white ones, it's a worthwhile book to pick up

Replurking so I can find this for later reading.