#medievaltwitter when was the last time you saw a 40+ page review attacking a book by a white male scholar?
I’m not saying that books by white men shouldn’t be critiqued at length. But I don’t really think that it’s fair to the reviewer to say that the length of her article is unacceptable because no one does the same to white men.
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I’m sure there are valid critiques in the piece. But it’d really be great if there weren’t also what appears to me to be casual racism. Why should white scholars get the courtesy of valid critique only? Why should a scholar of colour be subjected to exceptional criticism?
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As someone who wrote a review of the same book, I was given 800 words, while the other reviewer's venue gave them the space to engage with it thoroughly. The review is worth reading. There's stuff I agree with, there's stuff I don't agree with. Basing this simply+
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