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28 Nov, 18 tweets, 11 min read
My #ScholarSunday threads are taking a holiday weekend & will return next week. Keep up the great writing & work, all!

Today, in honor of my newest blog Guest Post, I wanted to share all of this year’s great Guest Posts (the most in one year ever!). #twitterstorians
In January, following up a New Year’s blog series on hope-full texts, I was honored to share a similar such reading list from @HermioneClone:

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2021/01/januar…
In February, I finally got to share a Guest Post from one of my very first Twitter connections & one of my AmericanStudying models, @adamgolub on creativity:

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2021/02/februa…
In April, another longtime partner in AmericanStudies crime, my @Fitchburg_State colleague @katisjewell, Guest Posted on the subject of her forthcoming book, college radio:

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2021/04/april-…
In May I got two awesome Guest Posts from students of @robinfield’s at @KingsCollege_PA: first Victoria Scavo on Mario Puzo & gender roles:

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2021/05/may-8-…
& second, Sarah Satkowski on undocumented immigrants in T.C. Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain:

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2021/05/may-29…
In June I finally got to share a Guest Post from one of my amazing @Fitchburg_State students, the English Studies alum & burgeoning professional writer Kurtis Kendall on athlete activism:

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2021/06/june-2…
As July turned to August the phenomenal @DrHettie2017 Guest Posted on the brutalization of Black women in American history, society, and culture:

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2021/07/july-3…
In September, @DrTanyaRoth concluded my PageantStudying series with a Guest Post excerpted from her awesome new book Her Cold War:

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2021/09/septem…
Later that month I dedicated a series to past Guest Posts from New England ASA colleagues, including @ElifArmbruster (whose birthday is today!) on food & female identity in fact & fiction:

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2021/09/septem…
Akeia Benard of @whalingmuseum on her role as that museum’s Curator of Social History:

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2021/09/septem…
@n_caronia on Columbus Day & Italian Americans:

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2021/09/septem…
@EDuclosOrsello on her work on & with Salem & community:

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2021/09/septem…
& @jtstex on how to be the American President:

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2021/10/octobe…
Which brings us up to that newest Guest Post, @ProfessorEmily on Afrofuturism at @cooperhewitt & @metmuseum:

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2021/11/novemb…
That amazing roster of Guest Posts joins the who’s who I’ve gotten to share in years past: @roopikarisam @robgreeneII @SilasLapham @proftpowell @robinfield @AriellaArcher @LiteraryRob @WKerrigan & my Mom @IleneLRailton among many others!

americanstudier.blogspot.com/2012/10/octobe…
As the blog moves into its twelfth year, I’d love to keep featuring at least one Guest Post a month, if not more! Which is where you come in—got something you’d love to blog about? Want to try short-form online writing? Lemme know, here or by email (brailton@fitchburgstate.edu)!
I’m thankful for all the ways the blog, like Twitter & online public scholarship, have connected me to wonderful fellow AmericanStudiers & all y’all. Here’s to another year of the best of community & solidarity!

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11 Nov
Apropos of this earlier mini-thread on Rittenhouse & exclusion/inclusion, wanted to share a few #VeteransDay thoughts on US military service & those competing visions of America. #twitterstorians

At one of my book talks for We the People back in 2019, an audience member asked a challenging, excellent question about how many of my examples of an inclusive America seem to come from wars & military service.
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They had a point: in that talk alone I focused at length on Japanese American soldiers in WWII, the US Colored Troops during the Civil War, & the “Manilamen,” the Filipino Americans who played such a vital role in the War of 1812's culminating Battle of New Orleans.
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11 Nov
I'm not alone in noticing this, but struck by how Vance et al defend Rittenhouse w/phrases like "defending his community." He crossed a state line & drove hours to get there, & killed at least 1 person born & raised in that community. But for white supremacists, it's all theirs.
That's the essence of the exclusionary definition of America I traced in We the People. Anglos arrive in California c.1849, a California where Native & Mexican & Chinese communities have all long been there already, & right away white supremacists pass a "Foreign Miners Tax."
Fighting these narratives & white supremacists requires all sorts of actions, but high among them is consistently redefining the American "we," how we see our communities & identities (throughout history as well as today) & who's at their core. For more:
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On this chilly Fall morning, here’s my 47th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work from the past week! Enjoy & share more, por favor! #twitterstorians
So, so much great work happening around issues of immigration, refugees, & deportation. Like this upcoming convo w/@adamsigoodman & @prof_erikalee for @UMN_IHRC:
& this from @UnlawfulEntries for @madebyhistory on state laws & policies before the evolution of federal control:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
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As my hometown of #Charlottesville completes a weekend of overdue statue removals w/UVa’s Clark statue this morning, wanted to make this week’s #ScholarSunday thread a bit different: pieces & voices to help contextualize this moment! #twitterstorians
Gotta preface the thread by shouting out the amazing young scholar & activist (and fellow Charlottesville High School alum) most responsible for getting us to this moment, @ZyahnaB (& all those @TakeEmDownCVL):

zyahnabryant.com
First, a handful of the many scholars who’ve been doing the work for years. @HilaryGreen77 has created an excellent database of statue & monument histories & removals:

hgreen.people.ua.edu/csa-monument-m…
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