Apropos of @slomuto's brilliant ITM piece, I want to talk about how and when race became a hot topic in medieval studies. Sierra reminded me recently that back in 2016, the amazing @ShokoofehR organized a Kzoo panel on medieval race.
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The speakers were me, Sierra, and another grad student. We got scheduled at the dreadful Sunday 8 am slot. There were about 15 people in the audience, almost all grad students, 2 of whom were personal friends. There were no senior folks there at all.
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Replying to @byjennytan
This is eerily similar to the 2018 MLA talk on racism IN Anglo-Saxon studies. 2 PoC spoke (
@EduardoRamosii and M. Rambaran-Olm). The session was at 8am and no more than a dozen people were in attendance. One senior scholar was one of the only PoC in the field. Is this a trend?2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes -
Replying to @ISASaxonists @EduardoRamosii
I didn't know this, but not surprised at all. Striking how many medieval race/politics panels there were at MLA 2019, and how the trendiness of race in medieval studies has coincided with the burgeoning # of medieval sessions at MLA (with about a year's lag, as one would expect).
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Replying to @byjennytan @EduardoRamosii
Maybe it's time we started speaking more openly about these issues. All too often they get brushed under the rug. The parallels between your panel and the OE MLA one are striking. Since this trend has taken off, the main messengers have become white women (mostly in A-S studies)
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in fact the respondent to Eduardo and Mary was a white scholar, even though they spoke of their own personal experiences of racism in the field. This represents part of a wider problem in Medieval Studies. PoC do the labor, quietly.
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Whoa! How did they have a white woman responding to two POC about their personal experiences with racism?!
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Replying to @slomuto @ISASaxonists and
Dare I ask what her comments were?
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Replying to @slomuto @ISASaxonists and
As an audience member of that, I can say, totally white feminism derail. A "now that I have tenure, I will do stuff, something something"
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @slomuto and
Ah yes, very helpful to PoC, no doubt. Wait your turn until and/or perish waiting for white folx to get tenure first.
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Just so laughable.
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