1. This afternoon I taught a new class on Race and Middle English Literature to my second years @UnivOxford. Such a productive discussion with the students and plenty of things for me to think about for the future too. THREAD of some of the things that we discussed in the class.
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2. For my class on Race we read extracts from Mandeville's Travels and the King of Tars (TEAMS editions) and we read the essays on race, postcolonial, and the global Middle Ages in Marion Turner's Handbook of Middle English Studieshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118328736 …
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3. For the presentations in the Race class, I had one group of students reading and discussing the 2001 special issue of JMEMS on Race and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages https://read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/issue/31/1 …
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4. The other presentation group read and discussed the special issue of Postmedieval from 2015: Making Race Matter in the Middle Ages https://link.springer.com/journal/41280/6/1/page/1 …
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5. My students also read blogposts from 'In the Middle', including the contributions by the Medievalists of Color and
@dorothyk98, to think about the state of the field and why race matters to medieval studies now.1 reply 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
6. Finally, I sent them the link to the Race and Medieval Studies crowdsourced bibliography and told them to choose an article that they were interested in, which they could then share with the group. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41280-017-0072-0 …
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7. If there are other teachers of
#medievaltwitter who also have ideas or exercises that have worked well in their classrooms on the topic of race, I'd be very keen to hear them!3 replies 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @lauravarnam
If you wish, I will send you my encyclopedia entry draft for the Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages on "race". It addresses a bunch of the previous scholarship.
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Replying to @dorothyk98
That would be incredibly helpful, Dorothy, thank you very much indeed!
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