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"When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else"- Toni Morrison
Founded by Dr. La-Toya Scott, In House Scholar is where academic rigor meets public imagination. It’s a home for ideas that live beyond the classroom—where literature, culture, and social critique move through digital media, performance, and everyday conversation.
Through teaching, writing, and public engagement, Dr. Scott builds bridges between scholarship and lived experience. Her work examines Black sanctuary, resistance, and storytelling across time and media, inviting audiences to think critically and feel deeply.
At its heart, In House Scholar redefines what it means to be a scholar today: accessible, rooted in justice, and fluent in the language of culture.
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Dr. La-Toya Scott explores how embracing change, not resisting it, led her from uncertainty to purpose. A reflection on nonlinear journeys, academic resilience, and redefining success on your own terms.
In this forthcoming monograph with Rutgers University Press, Dr. La-Toya Scott traces the tradition of Black sanctuary-making from enslaved hush harbors to contemporary digital and cultural spaces of refuge. Bridging African American literary studies, political history, and cultural analysis, the book theorizes how Black communities construct spaces of protection, strategy, and resistance in moments of national crisis.
The Writer’s Table is a monthly community writing gathering hosted by Dr. La-Toya Scott at Kindred Stories—a Black women–operated bookstore in Houston’s historic Third Ward. Designed as an intentional space for writers at all levels, it centers craft, discipline, and Black literary community in a space rooted in culture and care.