It is striking to me that when I said I wanted to move away from using AS in my thesis and replace it with Early English or early medieval England I was informed by a particular person in the field that it was more than defensible.
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But we also need to acnknowledge the racist roots that our field has.
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@erik_kaars about the racist roots of Anglo-Saxon studieshttps://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1171730118429073409?s=21 …Show this thread -
Should have tweeted this earlier but I think Dr Mary Rambaran-Olm is
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And her article she wrote about white supremacy in AS studies here https://medium.com/@mrambaranolm/anglo-saxon-studies-academia-and-white-supremacy-17c87b360bf3 …
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Thank you! I'm amazed by presumably smart people going "but the term was used in 6th-century Latin sources" as if that decides the conversation. Are we writing 6th-century Latin? I can only conclude they either have a momentary lapse of judgement, or ulterior motives.
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The issue is, which I think I had said earlier in another tweet, is that we invented a word in English to translate it, but that the word itself was borne from a time of serious racist shit in the beginnings of the field so why do we need to keep it?
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Fuck off.
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