I research a period which crosses both 11thC conquests of England, so ‘English’ has always been a more useful term to me than ‘Anglo-Saxon’. I see discourse about how ‘English’ carries racist connotations, but I wonder how I could convey my research if I didn’t use this term?
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‘Anglo-Saxon’ I can drop easily, but using ‘England/English’ seems inevitable when those are essentially the geographical bounds of my research.
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Are those arguing ‘early English’ shouldn’t replace ‘Anglo-Saxon’ also arguing we shouldn’t use ‘English’ or ‘England’ in an early medieval context? If so, what should replace it?
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Replying to @FlorenceHRS
I don’t think English is racist. I’ve seen a lot of white people claim that, and certainly ethnonationalist terminology should be questioned but many regular people, BAME included, do ID as English. I think if there is one term to reclaim from racists it’s that one.
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I do see the point about ‘Englishness’ and racism, I really do. And PoC are pointing this out. But if we have to use ‘English’ anyway, and nobody is arguing we shouldn’t, why not replace appropriate instances of ‘Anglo-Saxon’, a more directly racist term, with ‘early English’?
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Replying to @FlorenceHRS
Ah then I missed it, since it struck me that people telling me this were white Irish and English people. I’m paraphrasing some stuff
@ISASaxonists had mentioned a few weeks ago about this. But yeah, for all the people saying it, they offered few to no solutions.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
I got: “British”, “Germanic descent communities” as some bad faith responses. The only other good one I saw was the North Atlantic region but IMO that is too broad.
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Tbh I think the 'English is racist' thing is partially a deflection.
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