BIPOC early modern scholars of the historical moment have long engaged and written about the presence of Black peoples in England, the transatlantic commerce in African enslavement, and the cultural discourse in England. 2/
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The publications are there: Kim F. Hall, Imitiaz Habib, Joyce McDonald & others. If you can't cite/discuss our work, don't expect silence. I won't sit and watch an entire generation of Black & Brown premodern scholars who had to fight to 3/
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early modern English Black lives & issues of race centered in literary, historical, and cultural academic studies be effaced because white academic supremacy under the guise of "discovery" wants to take credit/get celebrated. 4/
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Acknowledge the ones who opened this door. Don't just cite them but center their Premodern critical race studies & archival work in your analyses. Do better, white premodern England scholars. Signed Margo Hendricks 5/ *typos brought to you by autocorrect
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moment is brought to you by another "we 'White scholars' have just discovered transatlanctic slavery was a thing in 16th/17th century England" citation. Every time I see one, I'm calling it out.
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