#medievaltwitter when was the last time you saw a 40+ page review attacking a book by a white male scholar?
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Whatever you think of the book (which I’ve read) or the review (which I haven’t), have a good hard think about whether the latter would have been written and published if the former wasn’t it a professor of colour and about race
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*by a professor of colour
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Replying to @heyouonline
I read the review, and while you certainly make a salient point I think that the review is measured and valid in its own right also.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Did it need 40+ pages to be that way? And can it genuinely be measured and valid if it wouldn’t exist in that form were it not for systemic and structural racism in medieval studies?
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Replying to @heyouonline
I think, and I say this as a white non-Jewish person, that a Jewish scholar has the right to discuss and respond to things in the book that she does not agree with and I think that making it out to be that this wouldn’t have happened if the author was a white man elides this.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Making it out? How many 40+ page reviews of a book by a white male scholar have you seen recently? I haven’t suggested the book is beyond critique or that someone from that disciple shouldn’t make any.
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Replying to @heyouonline @AdmiralHip
Have a re-read of the phrase “select social media personalities” in the postscript, think about one of the people it’s talking about and then come back to me on this. Those four words belittle a scholar of colour and the sentence marginalises anti racism work
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Replying to @heyouonline
I'm not sure what you're referring to, unless you mean a ref to M*lo, which was critical of him and his article and how right wing personalities at large mischaracterise our field and the debates within.
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I don't agree with the review 100%, but again, I think there is a lot valid with it.
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