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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If the discussion basically rehashes debates that social science scholarship left long behind, how is that somehow learning more "about race" rather than keeping the status quo. That status quo meant also white supremacist methodologies. If you are nuancing that, how is that new?
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For example, if you said the same thing about gender, but 50 years ago, people were using the term sex, and we were exactly stuck in those frames of cisgendered, heteronormative, binary, how is that learning a lot since 50 years ago? You just nuanced binary, hetero cis "sex"
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