Let me be clear: the overwhelming whiteness of Enlightenment studies is a major problem. And when Enlightenment scholars make sloppy assertions about "woke Diversity Radicals" and deride CRT, they are not helping.
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Screeds like this make the field of eighteenth-century studies less welcoming to BIPOC scholars *and that is a very big problem*.pic.twitter.com/Y6ncYtPkJg
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It's not just Warner. P. Cheney's H-France review of A. Lilti's book had this paragraph; where is the evidence for these assertions? I teach courses on the Enlightenment and none of this is familiar. Again, it is *bad for the field* when senior scholars write this stuff.pic.twitter.com/WF5wpGxMZv
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Believe me, I understand the anxiety about falling numbers of majors and enrollments. But the solution is not to blame CRT, DEI, or "cancel culture." It is far more effective to take CRT & multiculturalism seriously, as
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THAT is the future of Enlightenment studies that I want to see.
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Speaking of the future of Enlightenment studies, there should not be a panel on the futures of Enlightenment with this little diversity amongst the panelists. Long-time full professors, elite research institutions, almost all men, all white -- the panel is just too homogenous.pic.twitter.com/YfPVKZlj5t
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I know nearly nothing about any of this but it strikes me that there's a real opportunity (even a responsibility, at least for some) to do good, important public history by delving into the complexity of something like "the Enlightenment," incl./esp. how un-"enlightened" it was.
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I guess what I'm saying is, that as I see it, "the Enlightenment" was and is an idea, or set of ideas, at least as much as it was a "single" historical reality. Isn't our job the messiness and "tough" stuff? (E.g., peak of slave trade=apparent peak of Enlightenment?)
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Oof really sorry. Interesting to me that I never in a million years could imagine a BSECS address that took this line. Might be naive of me but I've never gotten that vibe from that society's leaders.
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