For those unfamiliar w/SAA seminar structure: members circulate essays and then gather for approx 2 hrs for discussions. It's a wonderful way to present WIPs, work through conundrums, and learn new stuff. 2/
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possible by academic white supremacy inc. For decades you designed the narrative & how it was to be written: inclusion if you approved the voices, exclusion if the voices were critical of your agenda. What happened: BIPOC academics 13/
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rejected your "right" to determine the contours of the narrative. Oh so clever, you send a "subaltern" to speak. It failed. You do not get to determine how premodern critical race studies moves forward. Your "whyte" self do not get to insist 14/
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or even ask that "early modern scholars...embrace the uncomfortable practice of token citation." It's not about what you want, Wendy. It's about what US/nonUS Black, Indigenous, Asian, and Latinx early modern scholars want. 15/
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We decide the citational practices and the parameters of our work. What you can do best, Wendy, is step aside. Give up your academic position to the "African" academic actually engaged in scholarship centered on pre-and early modern African cultures. 16/
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Until you do that, all I got to say is STFU. If you can't be an accomplice (i.e., ride & die or willing to sit in that prison cell next to me), stand aside. Do not seek to chastise what we do, or send your puppet in your place. Sincerely, Margo
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And then there was another seminar on queer studies & "race". By midpoint, I wished I'd signed up for the seminar. 3/
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