Andrea Achi talking about combating with supremacy in curatorial practice and showcasing diversity of the premodern. #RaceB4Race
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AA: discussing recuperation in museum work which seeks to erase blackness from the catalogue. This is a problem because their blackness is important to their identity.
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@prof_nmehdiz starting with Edward Said
and sharing pedagogical strategy on how to read a map she has circulated. #RaceB4RaceNäytä tämä ketju -
@prof_nmehdiz interrogating with students the assumptions they’ve brought to these maps and the value judgements they bring to these images.#RaceB4Racepic.twitter.com/0WlbhINlSo
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@prof_nmehdiz Maps not dispassionate depictions of the world but about how a group of people sees the world.#RaceB4RaceNäytä tämä ketju -
The maps appear to exist objectively and so acquire power in reality through the privilege of knowledge power.
@prof_nmehdiz using Said to show how power literally materialized through texts.#RaceB4RaceNäytä tämä ketju -
Travel and travail: Renaissance writers loves the pun, the tormenting nature of travel and of writing.
@prof_nmehdiz using Haklyut’s monumental text as her object and specifically his preface.#RaceB4RaceNäytä tämä ketju -
@prof_nmehdiz lipstick game is on point, as always
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Haklyut giving up “faire opportunities for private gain, preferment, and ease.” I bet
@ProfKFH has said something about this in Things of Darkness.#ShakeRace#RaceB4RaceNäytä tämä ketju -
@prof_nmehdiz these stories in Haklyut are framed as the property of England. The stories are metonymy for the land and people they report on. “They have writing to verify it.”#RaceB4RaceNäytä tämä ketju -
@prof_nmehdiz in assigning Thorne asks students to consider why this text is so tedious. What is accomplished through the pedantic details?#RaceB4RaceNäytä tämä ketju -
@prof_nmehdiz Thorne affirms how white cis-het men establish their authority through writing and scientific sounding jargon.#RaceB4RaceNäytä tämä ketju -
@prof_nmehdiz these texts display an ideological orientation of ownership. These men write as though the world belongs to them.#RaceB4RaceNäytä tämä ketju -
“The white makings of whiteness becoming visible through slow engagement, and this cultivation helps create racial literacy.”
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@prof_nmehdiz setting fire to the field
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@prof_nmehdiz advocating for us to teach our students about whose writing and voices matter and who gets to take up space, especially in their own writing.#RaceB4RaceNäytä tämä ketju -
“Care and compassion in writing is not antithetical to academic rigor.”
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Barbara Bordalejo: begins by a land acknowledgment and pledge to support and honor the Métis people on whose land she currently resides.
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BB: offers us a biography of her education in global settings. She situates herself to show how these experiences shape and enrich her work.
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BB: “we must position ourselves in backgrounds and in our ideologies. Especially in our classrooms which are designed fir a particular demographics and in which we might not fit.”
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BB interrogates the idea of a pedagogue as a guide, where students turn toward the teacher for knowledge. Education: the dominant cultural values are privileged at the expense of the marginalized and oppressed.
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Question about how to manage white students is rooted in white fragility. I said it.
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Me: my students are often uncomfortable and I am often uncomfortable in class. Imagine what it’s like for BIPOC scholars to read and teach texts that routinely demonize us. Are we still supposed to coddle whiteness at the expense of our humanity?
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