Like when someone in grad school asked me why I would study Shakespeare. Can people not see how racist that question is? Because they certainly wouldn’t say white people study Shakespeare because they identify with his whiteness. #ShakeRacehttps://twitter.com/warpath/status/1173098354659790848 …
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I sometimes feel like a native informant when I work on Islamic/Muslim stuff and then worry that I will only be seen as a niche scholar rather than someone who can work in the field broadly. It’s a catch-22.
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to a non-medievalist, he interrupted, “Why would a woman of color be interested in Anglo-Saxon history?” And I got to use his own question as an example of why the term has got to go.