Malone argues that medievalists and scholars refer to the "Anglo-Saxon period" or the "Anglo-Saxon language" as pre-English, or as not properly part of the history of England or the English language.pic.twitter.com/dnRZkJMSGN
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Malone argues that medievalists and scholars refer to the "Anglo-Saxon period" or the "Anglo-Saxon language" as pre-English, or as not properly part of the history of England or the English language.pic.twitter.com/dnRZkJMSGN
These debates continued for decades, with scholars like Susan Reynolds & Hirokazu Tsurushima (screenshot pictured, from his Nations in Medieval Britain) arguing that the term was not particularly common in the period in question & asking why it was common practice to use it.pic.twitter.com/k12kuk5SbK
There are MANY racial narratives surrounding the term "Anglo-Saxon." This has been summarized elsewhere at length, so I won't belabor it, but texts by Reginald Horsman, Cedric Robinson, and one last year by Matthew Vernon have summarized racial Anglo-Saxonism.pic.twitter.com/UlsdtQnqUJ
I notice that all the sources you cite here are from the US. There is a reason for this. In the UK, the term "English" is more problematic than "Anglo-Saxon" as a descriptor of the pre-Norman period. No need to take my word for it. Just ask Clarkson.pic.twitter.com/08wPNdsPGL
What do you recommend scholars replace "Anglo-Saxon" with, then? I will note that the sources all discuss Anglo-Saxonism in the UK, and that the heaviest backlash against the replacement of the term (and the most racist) has been from people in the UK.
It is decidedly not useless or uninteresting to discuss moving past a racist term. And if it WAS useless and interesting then we wouldn’t have racists coming out from the woodwork to defend the term.
And if YOU find it so uninteresting, feel free to not engage. But somehow I think you're lying about that too, because otherwise why would you waste your time writing all this nonsense defending some other fool who thinks he has something of value to contribute. Bye.
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