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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Replying to @AdmiralHip
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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Replying to @heyouonline @AdmiralHip
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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On how much space was afforded to the reviewer is reductive, and the reviewer's critiques from a disciplinary perspective are extremely important.
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Replying to @MedievalPhDemon @AdmiralHip
It’s not length per se, it’s comparative length. It’s why the work of a scholar of colour is subject to extraordinary critique of this kind when the work of white scholars isn’t.
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Replying to @heyouonline @AdmiralHip
The scope of what the bk takes on invites the kind of critique that makes the review valuable+worth thinking abt. As I said, I don't 100% agree with the review, but it's impt to read it first. Which yt dude has ever written a bk like this period for them to be critiqued this way?
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By the way, I had a line in my original review that basically said I wasn't qualified to assess certain treatments that I wasn't an expert in that got taken out, and a wholesale dismissal of someone who IS an expert in those materials is not a great look.
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Replying to @MedievalPhDemon @AdmiralHip
Ok. I’ve not gone about this well. To be clear about what I’m trying to get at. I don’t doubt there are valid critiques in this review - people with expertise in the field say there are. No issue with that. No book or scholar is above critique +
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What I question is why a book on race by a scholar of colour is the subject of critique in extraordinary form (length) and of extraordinary nature. Why the valid critiques have what seems to me like casual, dismissive racism alongside them? And at what point valid critiques +
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in parts (even many or most parts) might be invalidated in the sum of a piece if both form and content are laced with racism.
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This isn’t a book review, it is a review article. As such it will be lengthy. And it includes the bibliography. Review essays can be long because they are engaging in depth with the material.
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