I was at a conference about slavery last weekend where a good number of attendees and presenters seemed uncomfortable talking about race or even the enslavement of Africans and their descendants. Even by my very cynical standards, it was shocking.
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Yes, they do I went to conference held my a major slavery scholar — many of the papers were by his international white identifying students who only dealt with business side w/o a critical lens other than slavery was wrong.
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At one point it became clear that some of the senior scholars in the room may not have ever heard of Trouillot or Gilroy.
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