I'm working on an article on early modern racial formation and affect and ruminating on what it means for me to work in a field that demonizes and diminishes my identity in both its primary texts and the scholarship on them. I offer these questions: #ShakeRace 1/
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Thank you for this. I have been wrestling with a related question: how do we cut into the politics of being "authorities" on such texts, of being *teachers*, when the institutional and historical construction of authority around these texts demands our obeisance?
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I read these demands of obeisance as the demands of whiteness, from which we are excluded, and over which we can never have authority. We are then, even as teachers in opposition to these objects, outside the frame of representation and authority.
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