There’s a lot of columbusing going on with groundbreaking race work being credited to people who use race as a metaphor or people just suddenly deciding that race was a thing.pic.twitter.com/z6fI81AHCP
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Replying to @DrDadabhoy @Elysabethgrace
Yup. This is ever so familiar. For medievalists, I am like, and explain again why haven't you cited Heng as at the very least the most recent discussion.
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I made a white woman super uncomfortable at NCS b/c she wanted to discuss race, but said she had read Heng's book but didn't agree, but then wouldn't cite her, but then wouldn't explain why her particular whatever was different, since it pretty much sounded like what Heng said.
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Of course there were those Kzoo sessions last year that said they were talking about race, never defined it, used euphemisms that were soooo wth, while she is in the audience. She told them define race, you can cite me.
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They can’t explain why because they don’t know their CRT or Post/anti/decolonial theory... so it is just we will complain about senior WOC scholar in our field (can count how many there are of those on my hand) but not do our research b/c white mediocrity.
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Like how do you say you disagree w/ Heng’s definition w/out explaining your definition but somehow that is ok and “rigorous”... nope.
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Apparently I am very intense when I ask faculty questions. I am interested in actual logical and researched answers.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @DrDadabhoy
Then don't ask me any questions: I'm prone to speculative digressions.
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Replying to @Elysabethgrace @DrDadabhoy
These are the white faculty. Apparently it makes them nervous.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @DrDadabhoy
It also makes then very nervous when you don't play by the rules, hence my speculative digressions when a simple "I don't agree" should suffice. Actually, once had a privileged person tell me to "answer the question" that wasn't. I just don't play well.
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When I respond to hostile questions w/ researched logical answers, the white folks kind of do not know what to do. I like this digression idea. I had this whole white feminist fragility from a Byzantine historian in the spring, she really couldn’t explain anything coherently.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @DrDadabhoy
So true. The problem is they don't truly pick up the lesson. I discovered that after a couple of SAA confs. I don't bother w/hostile questions any more. I'll explain if I make a serious misread/mistake but I don't answer hostility any more.
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It's a deep & varied problem, enabled by citation protocols that prioritize citing scholars in your "field" in the text & everything else in notes.. I've never forgotten seeing someone attribute "intersectionality" to V. Traub. 1/
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