Ian Smith used Merchant of Venice to show how Antonio has become an invisible white man who disappears behind visibility of the Other into normative superiority. He asked us to consider the ways readers and subjects assume whiteness as default, without describing it.
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Geraldine Heng discussed the state of the field, ways to support grads, and how we position ourselves in/around our work. She asked us: What are the bridges across difference? Can you think about difference without hierarchy? How can you position yourself as part of your work?
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Arthur Little showed white people fighting over who is the whitest in Jonson’s commentary on Anne in Masque of Blackness. Whiteness becomes England’s superiority; cosmological, not cosmetic; something that you have, and not something that can be performed.
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@DrDadabhoy showed how identifying some plays as “race plays” suggests all other plays are immunized from discussing racialized identities. Using pedagogical examples from her own courses (which sound rad), she asked us whether playing Shax white is playing Shax RIGHT.Näytä tämä ketju -
Speakers often asked us to think about the importance of our own positionality. Geraldine Heng encouraged everyone to be very clear with the social location from which we read texts. No scholarship is objective so own your social location.
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Interrogating whiteness as default was another thread.
@DrDadabhoy discussed how her white students thought they had no experience of race in their own bodies. Ian Smith described mechanisms of systemic whiteness by asking what insists on being looked at + what we must look thru.Näytä tämä ketju -
Arthur Little showed whiteness as a masculine and British property that early moderns were obsessed with. So Jonson is really writing “masque of masking whiteness” and thinking about white women’s “ceaseless tears” as part of performance.
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So many more stimulating ideas emerging from the series. Shout out to
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moments across the series.)