I was on the roundtable plenary for the #Afterlives conference hosted by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @CSULB. During Q&A we were asked whether we can think about race or whiteness in the premodern in the way they seem to have been 1/
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is important and should not be ignored. If we refuse to see how difference is articulated through race in our periods and to read race as capacious and inconsistent, then we will continue to reproduce racial (white) formations of the past, while denying them. 9/
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I don't think the person who asked us that question was being insincere in his inquiry. But I am suspicious of claims that use the promiscuous circulation and application of Black to Euro identities as evidence of an unraced premodern period. 10/ 10
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