To judge from recent comments, it seems to be the case that at least some members of English departments in the US believe that discussion of 'race' in medieval studies began in the 2010s. This is a little surprising. In archaeology and history departments in Europe... 1/n
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how much of these things are about not wanting to give a racialized subject of the postcolonial empire her due for figuring out a major thing in the field. So is she a minoritized gendered voice, a subaltern, or is she the hegemony? You can't have it both ways. 2/
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I am pretty sure she speaks & works in several more languages than most European medievalists who are not concentrating on English. But also, what discussion in the Spanish/Portuguese empire from those minoritized/racialized bodies have discussed race for a long time. 3/
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