The International Society of Anglo-Saxonists needs to change its name to acknowledge that the term Anglo-Saxon is widely used in racist rhetoric. Be accountable and acknowledge that. Changing the name doesn't make you any less of a scholar. #medievaltwitter #ASS #shakerace
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Replying to @ISASaxonists
I've only ever described myself as an early medievalist, even though my PhD is on Bede. Could it be the Society for the Study of Early Medieval England?
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"Anglo-Saxon" is only abstract to (some) white Europeans. It has a long, racist history in the UK that's very much still alive. There's never going to be a perfect term, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't ditch an overtly racist term.
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Replying to @erik_kaars @garrity_nick and
lt wasn't even used in the medieval period. It appeared in the 18th/19th century as part of Euro-American ideas of white supremacy and of the English "race" as the best race. Many early medievalists explicitly made those claims. It's a term whose whole history comes from racism.
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I think the closest analogue to a medieval phrase for it was from King Alfred who started calling himself the King of the Angles and Saxons. I don't think that referring to the people who lived back then as English is very useful either but Anglo-Saxon really needs to go.
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