Exactly what I'm writing about in my book. It's entirely contrived but deeply embedded. I respect the work of everyone trying to root the term out and am trying to bring the historicity of the term to light through my talks, lecturing, writing and on different platforms.
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Replying to @DrJaninaRamirez @AdmiralHip and
Many scholars STILL use this term and are not racist. The term is completely different in a UK context and Dr J is right... terminology is deeply embedded in scholarship. This level of bullying by those accusing folk of racism has to stop.
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Replying to @Alison_Douglaz @DrJaninaRamirez and
This discussion is completely unrelated to whether any individual scholars are racist, it is about the inherent racism embedded in the term 'Anglo-Saxon'.
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Replying to @FlorenceHRS @Alison_Douglaz and
Scholarly discussion about the social implications and accuracy of our terminology is not 'bullying', and painting it as such is quashing not only intellectual progress but public understandings of history.
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Replying to @FlorenceHRS @DrJaninaRamirez and
With all due respect, I have seen bullying to folk who are scholarly and respectful. All for using the term Anglo-Saxon in an early medieval, material culture context. This is not ok.
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Replying to @Alison_Douglaz @DrJaninaRamirez and
With all due respect, no matter how 'respectful' a scholar's tone is, deciding to use a racist term after being informed of its inherent racism is not, in fact, respectful.
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Replying to @FlorenceHRS @DrJaninaRamirez and
Aha, but thisis where we disagree - respectfully. I am a scholar of material culture and I use this term because, in my view it is the only reasonable term for that period.
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Replying to @Alison_Douglaz @DrJaninaRamirez and
Then yes, we do disagree. Opting to uncritically use a term that not only has racist origins and racist applications but is also inaccurate and largely anachronistic is not only harmful but is, in my opinion, bad scholarship.
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Replying to @FlorenceHRS @DrJaninaRamirez and
But *I DO* think of it critically. Racist implications from the term Anglo-Saxon comes from American terminology. Not from the UK. Hence why it is deeply embedded in scholarship.
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Replying to @Alison_Douglaz @FlorenceHRS and
The problem is that it's not "racist implications." It's a racist term, all the way down. It was invented to create an imagined nationalist past and it continues to do that
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It’s limited use in the historical period is far outweighed by its racist usage, and there is no way an average person called themselves “Anglo-Saxon” in the eighth century. In addition, it’s clear material culture across early medieval England is not uniform.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @HalstedMedieval and
So applying a blanket historically inaccurate term that doesn’t properly encapsulate the variety of material cultures isn’t that helpful, and problems with the term was highlighted by Reynolds over 30 years ago.
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