Seventh Post- 28 June 2024

This week I and my fellow interns met with Dr. Lester and we received our new books. I confirmed that my previous assignment was finished and that my notes would be sent to the author. We had many books to choose from, but I ended up selecting the Stetson Kennedy Reader. I was not familiar with Kennedy's work until discovering this book, and I have found it very interesting. Our goal with this assignment is to review the preface or foreword, take special note of any footnotes and/or acknowledgements, and to document them. Then, based on that information, we need to research academics in the field of study being written about and gather information about them and their work. Mine might be tricky, as it deals with such a niche topic (the work of one man), but I hope to be able to find specialists on Florida anthropology and activism in the mid twentieth century, who, I predict, will undoubtedly have at some point encountered Stetson Kennedy's work. Hopefully all these people have not already been cited! It had not occurred to me how difficult it might be to find qualified reviewers after having written a book, since, especially with these very specific topics, the experts in the field may already have been cited if not consulted, so they cannot review from an unbiased perspective for submission to a journal. I am sure there are more experts in each field than I might imagine, but it is difficult to conceive of, considering the sheer breadth of topics in history and how specialized they can become.

I have not yet begun my search for researchers, but I have read the foreword and the introduction. I have already located one acknowledgement made in the footnotes and have taken note of the rest of the sources cited in the footnotes. I plan to make significant progress by next week. Though it is not required, I may end up reading the entire book, as I find it to be compelling and I also want to double check if anyone important is mentioned in a way that would disqualify them from being included in the list of recommended reviewers. This looks as if it is shaping out to be a fascinating project, and I could not be more excited.

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