US critical race theorists. I taught in the US, primarily US white students (nature of my institutional affiliation) shaped not by colonialism but by the institution of US slavery. That is my geographical neighborhood. 5/
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Where is all this coming from, you might ask? 1) A moment of extreme disrespect to a US Black Shakespearean friend @ a conf; 2) the English press genuflection to a disingenuous academic book on Blacks in Tudor England. 6/
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Ancestress here: There was a time when white British EMS-ists paid very little attention to matters of race (okay, maybe Othello or Aaron the Moor). What changed: US & British indigenous Black & PoC early modernists. 7/
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These scholars signal boosted the evidence, published the histories, conceived the importance of early modern critical race studies & encouraged transatlantic academic conversations. This is the start of early modern race studies. 8/
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This process recognized that the histories of US racism and European racisms are not identical but were intertwined. Citation became key to the circulation of this research and should inform any book on Blacks (or race) in Tudor Britain. 9/
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The archival and critical work by BlPoC early modernists (most often US indigenous Blacks) should be cited in said book, and acknowledged as the groundbreaking work said book merely continues. Didn't happen.10/
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Why? It's simple: Whiteness in academic has its privileges & it sees nothing wrong with erasures. Kim Hall and Imtiaz Habib should be cited all over a book on Blacks in Tudor Britain. Citation is easy -- erasure gets called out.11/
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If anyone is offended by this thread, so be it. I truly don't care. You should know I tossed my "tolerance of insidous academica racism" filters in the trash circa age 27 (academic politics will do that to you). Thanks for coming to my Ted talk 12/
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Replying to @dorothyk98
Kaufmann’s Black Tudors review in The London Telegraph.
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Oh hell no. So who is going to write the TLS piece that is going to call this BS out?
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Replying to @dorothyk98
I may consider it if I get my RaceB4Race paper done. I will be addressing this issue in that paper. I should have stayed retired. Lol
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But there are more of us. Will have a huddle w/ the RaceB4Race folks.
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