A bit late but it's been somewhat hectic. When RTs or notifications re historical studies about Black people and early modern England cross my TL, I find it difficult to sit silently in the face of erasures. 1/ [image: Madeline Kahn saying flames]pic.twitter.com/FcLWCYP8aP
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and White-English born (Marxist journalist) Peter Fryer. We were inspired and challenged by the works of Black scholars like Eldred Jones’ Othello’s Countrymen (1965) and Anthony Barthelemy’s Black Face, Maligned Race (1987). 12/
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Premodern critical race studies came into being because Black scholars (mostly US-born) fought for its existence, even in the face of UK/US academic resistance (despite the research by Walvin, Scobie, Shyllon, Gundara and Duffield, and Fryer). 13/
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Which is why I do my once every couple of months Twitter “reminder.” Research on Black people in early modern England and Premodern critical race studies existed long before a book titled “Black Tudors” came onto the landscape. 14/
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It is insulting that the scholarship of Imtiaz Habib has been ignored, overlooked, and erased in favor of a work clearly indebted to Habib’s research. That pre-1990 studies aren't acknowledged for paving the way for historians such as MK. 15/
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It is a slight to Dr. Habib's memory that a “petition” had to be launched to see “Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677” in paperback so the "archives" are readily available for study. It is insulting that so much research 16/
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on Black people in pre/early modern England is effaced or slighted. That Gretchen Gerzina’s Black England and Black Victorians exists as "evidence" of "Black English lives" yet in historical romance this fact is subject to question. 17/
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Academic gatekeepers and naysayers have done writers a disservice since archival-based documentation about Blacks in pre-1700 UK has long been available. So I say STFU to all “romance historical accuracy or authenticity” naysayers. The archives don't lie. 18/
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Importantly, for Romancelandia’s Black and Brown historical romance authors who aren’t academics, scholars of color have done the work for you on England’s “Black” history. Write your stories and if you aren't sure, ask. "We" got your back. 19/
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The resistance to critical race theory in pre/early modern fields unless it is filtered through a white lens remains a signficant form of gatekeeping on all levels, academic and non-academic. It needs to stop now. 20/ [image: Prince shaking his head]pic.twitter.com/kz3pgLDkGf
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I'm someone whose academic career centers on "race" and Black peoples in 16th/17th centuries English culture. I don't need to see RTs of "late to the 'race' table" white historians' texts on my TL, especially when it's a rehash. I know the genealogy 21/
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a generation of historians marginally acknowledged or elided; recall their dismissal of the value of the research; felt the sting of criticism when we insisted otherwise. Perhaps this might seem petty, but 21st century pre/early modern white historians 22/
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and literary scholars don't get to posture their "credentials" over an area of research, premodern critical race studies, their disciplines resisted or slighted for several decades. ~ Margo Hendricks (*I'm writing this at 12:52 am. Any typos...
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