In this moment, when so many of our fellow citizens are risking their lives to take to the streets and protest the systemic oppression that white supremacy visits upon the existence of Black people, the work we do at our institutions #AcademicTwitter #ShakeRace #LitPOC 1/
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How do we marginalize Black life and uphold our privilege by deciding whether or not to even address these events and the national crisis that they signal? 3/
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We must consider these questions if we aim to uphold the values of plurality, diversity, equity, and inclusion that we and our institutions claim as foundational to our educational mission. 4/
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Non-Black people and educators can no longer afford to treat systemic white supremacy as ancillary or incidental to our lives or our work. We must be worthy of this moment and confront it. 5/
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As someone who teaches early modern English literature and Shakespeare, whiteness is all around me. It saturates the texts I read, written by and for white people. 6/
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Indeed, it is so pervasive and all encompassing that we don’t even notice it until that whiteness is disturbed by something non-white, like me for example, a non-white scholar of Shakespeare. 7/
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In my first teaching experience as a graduate student, I failed spectacularly in trying to get my majority white students to interrogate the racial politics of Shakespeare’s Othello. The fault was both mine and my students’: 8/
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I lacked experience and sufficient pedagogical training to tackle this difficulty and my students lacked basic racial literacy. I took this experience personally because my students made me feel as though the tension that our discussion was generating was my fault 9/
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because I, as a Brown woman, was invested in race in a way that they, as majority white people, were not. In many ways, I didn’t have a choice in thinking about how race was in the room and affecting my teaching, 10/
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because my students could see, because of my identity, that it was. Yet, my race was the only one that was in the room, whiteness, even though it was there, and governed how we discussed this play, remained invisible, always exerting power but remaining unmarked & unnamed. 11/
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The unmarked and unremarkable nature of whiteness is its superpower. Indeed, when we as teachers and scholars of one of the greatest white, male writers in the history of the English language, don’t position him and his work as such, we continue to feed that power. 12/
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At this moment, we must stop feeding whiteness and white supremacy. We must engage in anti-racist pedagogy. If we teach Othello it can't be as a play about Blackness, because it is a play about whiteness and its desire to possess and destroy non-whiteness. 13/
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We must expose the whiteness that structures and organizes our field, how these aesthetic objects are implicated in the violence of racism and systemic anti-Blackness. We cannot do otherwise. We owe it to our students. 14/
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#BlackLivesMatter
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Scholars fighting white supremacy in our field:
#ShakeRace#LitPOC#AcademicTwitter https://profession.mla.org/blackkkshakespearean-a-call-to-action-for-medieval-and-early-modern-studies/ … 1/Näytä tämä ketju -
Ruben Espinosa: "One might wonder, do we really need Shakespeare to understand this? My firm answer is: No. But I wholeheartedly believe that Shakespeare needs us." 2/https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/shakespeare-and-your-mountainish-inhumanity-d255474027de …
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Kate Gillen and Lisa Jennings "Is it then possible to decolonize the Shakespeare classroom? What would this look like? And how might we as Shakespeare professors contribute to this decolonial effort? Or, at the very least, not reinscribe colonial violence?https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/decolonizing-shakespeare-toward-an-antiracist-culturally-sustaining-praxis-904cb9ff8a96 …
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Ayanna Thompson "But once we keep recirculating those texts with this idea that they're good for you, people always want to -[...] Or I'm finally going to do the one that reveals the full complexity of Othello's character.https://www.npr.org/transcripts/752850055 …
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Ian Smith: We can have a different conversation about the urgency of race now, rather than the relevance.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsD0DNk-0Oo …
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Kim F. Hall and Peter Erickson "A New Scholarly Song" & the entire Shakespeare and Race special issue of Shakespeare Quarterly.pic.twitter.com/yAZV1YhsJ8
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@KeithHamCobb's@AmericanMoor https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/american-moor-9781350165304/ … and his remarks on Shakespeare Unlimitedhttps://www.bloomsbury.com/us/american-moor-9781350165304/ …Näytä tämä ketju -
Farah Karim Cooper's primer on "Anti-Racist Shakespeare": "When writing about Shakespeare and race as a scholar of colour there are various challenges that perhaps white scholars don’t face."https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2020/05/26/anti-racist-shakespeare/ …
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Lots more resources on the
#ShakeRace Google doc compiled by@ProfKFHhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1AaMp1al8y715FklUq1x5scqBHYS9QpzvMzgYU_ZyFow/edit …Näytä tämä ketju -
Also,
@ProfKFH's Shakespeare Birthday Lecture, "Othello was my grandfather: Shakespeare in the African Diaspora"https://soundcloud.com/folgershakespearelibrary/shakespeare-anniversary-lecture-series-kim-hall …Näytä tämä ketju -
Phoebe Boswell, "Dear Mr. Shakespeare"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d55GytFubzE …
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If you've read Kim F. Hall's Things of Darkness, you know that in the epilogue she discusses the importance of Black feminist methodologies to the intervention she makes in her study.
#ShakeRace scholars lean heavily on Black feminist scholarship. Some below
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One of my favorites is bell hooks "The Oppositional Gaze," about the place of Black women as spectators in looking relations designed to exclude them and the place of epistemological power that offers. http://blogs.ubc.ca/outofplace/files/2015/03/hooks.pdf …
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Patricia Hill Collins "Black Feminist Though" is a must read to understand the field, its methods, and its questions.https://books.google.com/books?id=cdtYsU3zR14C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false …
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Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields "Racecraft: The Sould of Inequality in American Life" on the incoherent yet powerful operations of race relations, which are always relations of dominance and oppression.https://www.amazon.com/Racecraft-Soul-Inequality-American-Life/dp/1781683131 …
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Cheryl Harris, "Whiteness as Property," on the intimate connection between racial identity and property rights. https://www-jstor-org.ccl.idm.oclc.org/stable/pdf/1341787.pdf …
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Hortense Spillers "Mama's Baby, Papas Maybe: An American Grammar Book," uncovers the complex relations through which Black women's subjectivity as racial and gendered beings is formed. https://people.ucsc.edu/~nmitchel/hortense_spillers_-_mamas_baby_papas_maybe.pdf …
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