This is how scholarship and research works. Our work and terminology reflects new research and/or a better understanding of past. The only reason this is a term people want to hold on to is because it is inextricably linked to whiteness, and this is proving us right.
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Since no one will deputize me as the word marshal, I'll settle for a position backed by scholarship that confronts our discipline's racist foundations. I thank scholars who consider the evidence carefully and those who confront right wing extremist attempts to twist this issue.pic.twitter.com/fAbyUa746b
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Sure. Here for starters: http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/misnaming-the-medieval-rejecting-anglo-saxon-studies/?fbclid=IwAR1EndSzaJOhf8mTirqWBx434G-_Ehu9OYOk3eKBUhJOiLBqKCDNifD8p44 … There are links in the article that will take you to more resources. And also this article:https://www.historyextra.com/period/anglo-saxon/professor-michael-wood-anglo-saxon-name-debate-is-term-racist/ …
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