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Replying to @dramdarcy
Stop. You are only digging a bigger hole for yourself. If you don’t like Early Medieval England (which is not racist btw) then suggest something else as an alt to the actually racist phrase Anglo-Saxon.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @dramdarcy
Thing is, Early Medieval England isn't (as far as I'm aware) any more exclusionary than Anglo-Saxon. If it were being advertised as "British" (which it isn't) or "Insular" then yes, it would be erasing Celtic peoples. As it is, AS as a term also excludes Celtic peoples.
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Of the two, Early Medieval England is ahistoric, but no more so than AS, and it doesn't carry the legacy of white supremacy to the same extent that AS does. It means teachers have to be careful to avoid suggesting England as a nation was inevitable, but that was already the case.
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Early Medieval England (or something to that effect) is the least worst of the options in rebranding AS studies without erasing people. The renaming comes from a very real concern and a real danger to our peers and students.
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Basically, it's an improvement, and there's no reason to kick off if Medievalists of Colour quite rightly point out how Anglo-Saxon as a term is fraught with racist history and should be retired.
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Firstly perhaps just dates (though of course this will be disputed and rightly so). Secondly it's a great shame that a threatened field of study seems to be pulling itself apart.
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We’re trying to make it better, not pull it apart.
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