The argument that modern concepts of race did not exist in the early modern period is a bad faith argument. 1) it presupposes that early modern race scholars are naively and uncritically applying contemporary understandings of race and race relations to the past. #ShakeRace 1/
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and somatic difference that they differently codified and taxonomized in service of territorial expansion, war, and empire. 4) It presumes that race is a stable category, only coming into being in its current iteration and therefore unable to be interrogated in more shifting 3/
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and unstable ways. 5) It denies the power of obviously racialized representations of the past by simply asserting that "it's not race." 6) It allows scholars not to engage with critical race theory, which relies upon understanding race as power and domination 4/
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located in bodies that come to be "marked" by race. It behooves us to think about the impulse behind these arguments. They are never neutral. 5/5
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