Imagine not reading any early modern race work but commenting on it anyway.
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That is understood to codify it and to inaugurate modernity. As scholars we’re also reevaluating the racial occlusions and blinders of those who came before us, whose whiteness and racial positioning didn’t allow them to see the operations of whiteness at work. 3/3
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Definitely. That is very well put. It can be difficult to go against such disciplinary occlusions as a PhD student, but it’s still a path worth choosing.
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At least in Finland it was resisted by intellectual historians, who didn’t either want to engage with literary scholars or got stuck in concepts and periodisation struggles. To me it just felt like unwillingness to engage, read and an effort to police disciplinary boundaries.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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But we are not doing that. Early modern history is probably 10-15 years behind English Lit on thinking about race. For me, it was doing research on race and slavery, finding the people. I’m a social historian by temperament. /1
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I think the worst ‘anachronism wars’ were being fought 15-20 years ago, at least in Finland. So am not talking about now, just saying that that comment by the PhD student seems to come from that same impulse and discourse.
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I’ve been following this with great interest as a modern historian dealing with these issues in survey courses that usually begin c 1500. I completely agree that we need language that acknowledges structures of power and engage with race while still pointing out what changed/
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This is a sincere question, so I hope you will take it as such, but doesn't "the language that acknowledges the structures of power" that engages with race already exist?
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/in the modern period. Completely agree w/
@susandamussen that we historians struggle with the most basic problems of continuity & change. Part of it too is fighting back against students’ assumptions that racism has always been a problem or always the same problem. Great thread!Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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