#MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race #BIPOC18 #LitPOC #POC19 #Bigger6 To quote @Elysabethgrace from her Folger talk (https://www.folger.edu/institute/scholarly-programs/race-periodization/margo-hendricks …): PRS (premodern race studies) is the practice of approaching race studies as if "you've just discovered the land." 1/https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1210685235010117632 …
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#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race 4/ No articulation of the couple genealogy that produced premodern critical race studies exists, which in turn, drew these academic "settlers," and I am calling them "settlers," to premodern race.Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race 5/ And just like capitalist "white settler colonialism," PRS fails to acknowledge the scholarly ancestry (the genealogy) that continues to inhabit and nurture the critical process for the study of premodern race....Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race 6/ I want to suggest, I want to declare, "white settler colonialist" thinking is integral to premodern race studies. Why? Because "whiteness" is centralized in PRS as the privileged narrative creep.Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race 7/ PRS relegates its critical race studies' ancestry to a citational entry, buried in a lengthy footnote, surrounded by scholarly whiteness. This creeping whiteness mediates the narrative by insisting on the sanctityShow this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race 8/ of white-centric ideologies, genres, and, of course, the privilege of engagement: who gets cited, who doesn't. Using this creep, anyone can wear the mantle of premodern race studies. What this individual fails to see in such practicesShow this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race 9/ is the ways PRS intersects with the ideologies of white supremacy, and PRS's insistence on what Lehua Yim describes as the "arrogance of assumption" embedded in the inclusive "we."... This "we" envisions itself acting inclusively,Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race 10/ engaged in the political work of furthering premodern race studies by structuring race as an event... from the lovely@Elysabethgrace and literally a word-for-word description of what@ISASaxonists has discussed.Show this thread
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