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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 17h

Read Fui Can-Tamakloe's "We Are Men" free in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social via @projectmuse.bsky.social

#S2O #OpenAccess

muse.jhu.edu/article/958166

And then listen to "We Are Men" (read by Tsiddi Can-Tamakloe) along with an interview with Fui Can-Tamakloe at the THR podcast: tinyurl.com/42xjv7pw

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 12d

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 21d

1) As of today, you can read the full Introduction to "The Letter of the Law in J.E. Casely Hayford's West Africa" for free on its @princetonupress.bsky.social page. All books are labors of love, but labor and love are also at the heart of this book's subject.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa’s most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectual

press.princeton.edu

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 13d

This is such a great practice and as a person who has written a book, it is always amazing on the rare occasion when I have received these types of notes and never a burden.

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 14d

I started doing this thing where when I read a book I admire I try to find the author’s email & send a quick message saying I appreciated it. No big deal, not trying to be weird, but like: thank you for helping me think something new. It’s hard writing books. It matters when people read them.

Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination @dissentum.bsky.social · 14d

Did you see your friend's book at the store? Email them a pic! See them cited? Email them (esp. as aggregators fail to catch many citations)! Did a scholar mention their work! Email them! Did a student use their work in a paper? Email! Did a professor teach their work? Email! Email! All the time!!!

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 24d

“The Letter of the Law in J.E. Casely Hayford’s West Africa” is now available for Amazon pre-order! I will even paste the first two blurbs here to entice you, upping by about 100% my not-very-impressive marketing game.

www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0691...

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa [Jackson, Jeanne-Marie] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

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Dora Malech @doramalech.bsky.social · 21d

TRYING X TRYING is on Poetry Northwest’s list of PoNW’s Favorites | Autumn 2025!! In great company.

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Big thanks to Cindy Ok and all at Poetry Northwest.

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Pub date approaching; book shipping now.

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 21d

7) J.E. Casely Hayford's work is a portal into a milieu where such things mattered very much. I hope that readers find value in my presentation of it. Thank you for coming to my second thread ever.

Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 21d

6) African history and literature have been ill-served by the dominance of "the cultural" and "the social" over intellectualism that is unafraid to declare itself as such. They have been ill-served by a propensity to detach politics from the narration of denser kinds of moral & aesthetic reasoning.

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 21d

5) But no label under which Casely Hayford and his ilk are packaged -- "coastal elite," "comprador bourgeoisie," “cultural middlemen," etc. -- does justice to the fine-grained attention that CH brought to questions OF disposition, and its role in the cultivation of self and state through law.

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 21d

4) And hey, look, I get it; clear-headedness, moderation, restraint, and public discernment are not necessarily things we get excited about in 2025. For obvious reasons.

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 21d

3) In the language of Gen Z (or Y?), this book is my own cri de coeur against "tone-policing" previous generations of intellectuals and state-builders. J.E. Casely Hayford, and the West African (pre-)colonial legal class of which he remains emblematic, was dispositionally liberal to the core.

Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 21d

2) Labor in the sense that it casts Casely Hayford as a kind of formal and conceptual technician, or engineer, and love in that it finds his profound commitment to African civic life in this systematic, nuts-and-bolts sensibility.

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 21d

1) As of today, you can read the full Introduction to "The Letter of the Law in J.E. Casely Hayford's West Africa" for free on its @princetonupress.bsky.social page. All books are labors of love, but labor and love are also at the heart of this book's subject.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa’s most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectual

press.princeton.edu

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 24d

Will I post MORE BLURBS in the future? Stay tuned to find out. And please pre-order if that’s something you do!

Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 24d

“Jackson’s arguments are compelling, her prose neatly combines clarity of expression with complexity of ideas, and her research is meticulous. Her Casely Hayford emerges as character: simultaneously a literary character and a person of great character.”—Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 24d

“This is a tour de force—erudite, bold, and original. Jackson models the complexity of her subject with a sophisticated handling that refuses to cast Casely Hayford in a simple light. The book is a generational accomplishment.”—Cajetan Iheka, Yale University

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 24d

“The Letter of the Law in J.E. Casely Hayford’s West Africa” is now available for Amazon pre-order! I will even paste the first two blurbs here to entice you, upping by about 100% my not-very-impressive marketing game.

www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0691...

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa [Jackson, Jeanne-Marie] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

www.amazon.com

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 24d

New ELH! With an English Institute MEGA-CLUSTER! 🤯

Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 28d

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
ELH
Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2025
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/253d5mh8

CONTRIBUTORS
Virginia Jackson
Meredith Martin
Sonya Posmentier
Feisal G. Mohamed
Anna Brickhouse
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon
Jodi A. Byrd
Edgar Garcia
Jennifer L. Fleissner
Karen Tongson
& more!

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
ELH
Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2025
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE

CONTRIBUTORS
Virginia Jackson
Meredith Martin
Sonya Posmentier
Feisal G. Mohamed
Anna Brickhouse
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon
Jodi A. Byrd
Edgar Garcia
Jennifer L. Fleissner
Shonni Enelow
Courtney Weiss Smith
Kevin Quashie
Nancy Yousef
Caleb Smith
Karen Tongson
Tina Post
Julie Orlemanski

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Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social · 26d

Good morning! If you'd like to read smart things instead of all the stupid things, the new ELH is out, with essays from The English Institute. New work by Quashie, Post, Orlemanski, Yousef, CW Smith, Tongson, and yours truly, introduced by Fleissner and Enelow.

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Project MUSE - Essays from the 2024 English Institute: Expression

muse.jhu.edu

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 24d

I clearly have not cracked the Bluesky code, because no one seems to see any of my posts, but hey, I’ll keep trying.

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 24d

Are you in Baltimore? Here are two great event you should come to!

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · Sep 9

Think about joining us tonight if you’re in or near D.C! Free and open to the public at Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg campus, and yes we’ll have wine.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · Sep 3

A big - in fact, HUGE welcome to the inaugural “AGHI in Translation” text, produced by @deepvellum.bsky.social in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute. Not feeling very celebratory on the whole these days, but I am one proud new Institute Director.

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · Sep 3

Sharing my book cover again because I love it and 99% of everything else is depressing.

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