Collecting Lives

Rodrigues, Elizabeth

doi:10.3998/mpub.11618648

2022

DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11618648

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Collecting Lives

Elizabeth Rodrigues¹

Abstract: The open-access publication of this book was supported by The Eugene B. Power Fund.

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“…In addition to Hunter's studies, scholars have explored The Philadelphia Negro's other sociological and historical contents, along with the wider sociological research he continued during his career. Collectively, this scholarship has unveiled the myriad dimensions of Du Bois's capacious intellect that over time innovatively combined multiple disciplines (Itzigsohn and Brown 2020;Loughran 2015;Morris 2015;Rabaka 2010Rabaka , 2023Rodrigues 2022;Rudwick 1974;Womack 2022;Wortham 2009;Wright 2016;Zuberi 2004).…”

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W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Philadelphia Negro: A Book History

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Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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The Philadelphia Negro pioneered the field of urban sociology. As a result, scholars often highlight its academic interventions that over a century after its publication remain germane to the study of cities and multiethnic populations in urban settings. While emphasis on the text’s scholarly originality and contemporary analytic relevancy is central to demonstrate its importance, consideration of The Philadelphia Negro’s book history provides an equally compelling account of its enduring significance. Book history addresses the creation of a book as a physical publication. Book history also considers the authorial choices behind infrastructural, textual adornments such as appendixes or maps. In addition, book history deals with subjects like cover art and how publishers and authors often cocreate the external visual presentation of a book’s interior contents. In this brief book history, I explore an editorial history of critical scholarly editions of The Philadelphia Negro, an analysis occasioned by a recent 2023 University of Pennsylvania Press updated edition of the text that features sociologist Elijah Anderson’s revised editorial introduction, first published in 1996. In other words, I historicize critical scholarly editions of The Philadelphia Negro to trace the book’s reception and meaning over time. I also examine selected textual and infrastructural features of each critical edition, most especially the book covers. Historical analysis of sociological writing summons historians (like me) to perform cross-disciplinary intellectual labor while it also invites sociologists to consider historical context more expansively in their assessment of sociological texts.

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American Literary History

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This essay examines two recent books that each take up the vexed topic bodies of data in relation to literature and race in the US: Richard Jean So’s Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction and Elizabeth Rodrigues’s Collecting Lives: Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literatures. Each book, in its own way, asks literary scholars to take the data corpus seriously as both an object and a method of study. While acknowledging that the collection of bodies of data has long been used to efface, dehumanize, and racialize, So and Rodrigues ask readers not to dismiss reactively the data corpus’s potential to also be an unexpected tool for refuting those same naturalized and totalizing narratives. Contemplating, as they do, the unique temporality and spatiality of the accretion of singular points into a collective data, the books explore what a data corpus looks, feels, and sounds like and what it might tell us about the relationship between bodies, books in twentieth-century US literature, and the stories that have and could be told about both.Thinking in different ways about the vexed relationship between bodies of data, literature, and race in the US, Rodrigues and So each demonstrate that, while data cannot speak for itself, there are some stories we can neither hear, see, nor tell without its help.

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Collecting Lives

Abstract: The open-access publication of this book was supported by The Eugene B. Power Fund.

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