Luke Harris framed the notion of colorblindness as a weaponized "whiteness protection program" used to deflect attention away from the damaged state of institutions when access is in question
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Then, Kimberlé Crenshaw (!!!) evoked the trope of the "almost educated" as a means by which those who call out the failures of colorblindness are de-legitimized & marginalized when they push for "modes of entry" into spaces of power. PLUS THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX_Vzl-r8NY …
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Also there was a neat twist of the conjoined strands of drama-as-context and institutional limits when Crenshaw described student activism at Harvard Law School as a kind of radical response to the question "how do you cast for the role of law professor?"
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Devon Carbado then described an increasingly dystopian sequence of recent implicit bias experiments and asked us to think about their implications (and limits too- plenty of quite explicit bias going on!). I found this one extra painful: http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2004-21339-010 …
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Then Ayanna Thompson (woot!) did a smart reparative reading of a German production of "Othello" that used, yes, a gorilla suit- making a case for a model of embodied "contingency" that exceeds both "mimetic" and "exhibitionist" frames of raced casting. Bonus: Marlene Dietrich!
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Then @DrFarahKC read Margo Hendricks' strong intervention on "the disappearance of race"- pushing back against the metaphoric inflation/expansion of the term, & warning against "ornamental" modes of engagement that aren't tied to geographic origins and peoples.
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Hendricks' talk also started with a memory of a haunting question posed in South Africa years ago: "given the colonialist/imperialist uses to which Shakespeare's work has been put, why should black people engage with it?"
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@ProfKFH delivered a deeply moving working through of a traumatic Pepys diary entry, combined w a resounding response to timid "race evasive" work currently on offer in early modern food studies that tiptoes around slavery and colonial violence.Näytä tämä ketju -
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@DrDadabhoy rotated the map and brought the Eastern Mediterranean into focus with a striking examination of Ottoman imperial contexts, the figure of the black male eunuch, and the question of Othello's sexuality. Plus: "cinnamon-ing" as a verb!Näytä tämä ketju -
Miles Grier pushed back against deep psychologizing of Shakespeare's black characters by exploring "inkface"- his term for the flatness of racial representation, blackness as "external paint," & a persistent poetics of paper and ink around (sexual) scenes of racialized bodies.
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responding to Ayanna Thompson's reading of the German production, Miles Grier: "Shakespeare is not universal writer, but he is an experimental one."
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Alfredo Modenessi then proposed and worked through the concept of "cultural anthropophagy" as a mode for appropriation-as-incorporation, and delivered a truly withering reading of a recent Globe production set in Mexico
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Pushing off from the alleged aroma of Caliban in the Tempest, Carol Mejia-LaPerle flagged the conceptual challenge of the olfactory to whose body gets racialized and how: "Rather than ask what smell means, I want to ask what is smell for?"
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Finally, Arthur Little's wild critical assemblage used Weheliye's critique of Agamben, "the Sixth Sense," Fanon (and lots more!) to work towards a great reading of the earring in the Ethiop's ear in R&J.
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In a sense, Arthur Little's question speaks to the spirit of the remarkably rich scholarly day it concluded: "How do we stop ourselves from *not seeing* the black people" in the early modern & Shakespearean archives?
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Okay, that was my little thread that was a kind of frantic rundown of today's talks. These are paraphrases only! any mistakes are faults of my transcription! Sorry also but I didn't always know if people had handles
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