#MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race This means that I regularly edit people more senior than me & also people junior than me. As an editor, it is your responsibility to make sure that the pieces in your vol./ issue, etc. are addressing the most recent scholarly convo. 2/
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#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race I have discussed it in my intro to the new special of issue of Literature Compass on critical race and the Middle Ages. https://bit.ly/37GYtWK 13/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race Peer reviewers and/or editors w/ knowledge & expertise in feminist CRT would have caught that “intersectionality” is not something you can apply to everything. Intersectionality has a genealogy & a theory. It does not mean “diversity.” 14/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race It is about compounded harm, as Kimberle Crenshaw has discussed in multiple articles. You can also read Patricia Hill Collins’ recent discussion of the theory of intersectionality. https://amzn.to/2ZUtvI8 15/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race I just published an article in Intersectionality & DH. The use of the term w/out knowing what it means should already have been a red flag for any knowledge feminist CRT reviewer. 16/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race If you are going to discuss critical race & the Middle Ages, you should be citing Heng’s recent books. However, you only confuse the argument if you use her work & quotes w/out understanding the basis of her arguments 17/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race and/or her depth of knowledge in the genealogies of critical race theory, postcolonial/anticolonial theory, etc. or if you quote various critics she disagrees with —i.e. Balibar—in your piece as an example of your knowledge of CRT. 18/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race knowledgeable reviewers & editors who have actually read Heng's work should have caught this & asked for clarification & explanation. Heng’s work is not a “woke” I-do-CRT shield. If you don't cite it, yes, I would judge the work not 19/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race sufficiently aware of the recent critical race and medieval studies turn. However, citing it w/out understanding it & showing the lack of understanding also reveals inadequate research literacy in the area & research labor done 20/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race There are deep genealogies she is accessing in recent CRT & postcolonial/anticolonial discussions. If you do not understand that & the turn in theoretical discussions she is referencing, then your argument about race will make no sense. 21/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race Especially clear when you use terminology like "other" interchangeably w/ race, ethnicity, alterity, monsterization, w/out explaining why. In regards to "other," I feel like this is a holdover from Leeds 2017. 22/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter @adam_miya@JonathanHsy @ontakragouek & I already pointed out the utter problems with having a theme like "Others" that elides actual critical work in CRT &postcolonial/anticolonial work. 23/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race This work is political & does not mean that white settler scholars can decide (like they have done with LGBTQIA & the term "queer") to make everything "other" as a thought experiment. That is not how it works. 24/Show this thread -
#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race#MedievalTwitter We told you the theme & its description was racist & orientalist as hell. We explained why. You all screamed at us & we had Leeds 2017 dumpster fire 25/:https://www.chronicle.com/article/Medievalists-Recoiling-From/240666 …Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race Similarly, it should be clear to any peer reviewer or editor with a basic knowledge of CRT that to discuss race means you are discussing race as a “biopolitical and sociocultural” category. 26/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race To define race as something that is biologically essential reveals a complete lack of understanding critical race theory from the last 60 years. Citing recent intros. to race w/out understanding this basic premise 27/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race only further shows the various band-aids used to paper over the fact that one has no understanding of critical race theory. This is a basic research issue & shows no understanding about the critical lit. on race, ethnicity, etc. 28/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race If you cannot be precise@ terms such as alterity, other, ethnic, race, & monsterization, & if you do not know which genealogy these terms are attached to, then the article is a research mess. 29/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race Moreover, it can lapse into some serious racist moments by putting “monsterization” together with “indigeneity.” 30/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race If I can use an example in another field of my own expertise, writing about race w/out actual research would be akin to saying you do DH work & tell everyone that your digital editing & database work is on Vannever Bush's Memex, 31/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race a research system that developed in the 50s and 60s. Similarly, you would be only about 20+ years behind if you said your current digital medieval work was entirely about HTML. 32/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race In both cases, you would show your deep lack of knowledge about the last 2 decades & probably the last 6 decades of research & critical conversation in this research area. Even if you cite recent descriptions of “digital humanities” 33/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race definitions w/out without knowing what the most recent discussions in research are for the most cutting-edge work, all this shows is your lack of field knowledge. 34/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race In relation to indigenous studies, @adam_miya has already explained how several pieces borrow from him w/out proper credit. His Lit Compass article also explains how describing premodern Europe (except for the Inuit and Saami situation) 35/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race is utter settler-colonial violence. It’s settler-colonial theft & also deeply violent & racist scholarship. All of this shows the woeful lack of understanding of what is necessary for doing situated, ethical work in indigenous studies. 36/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race The baseline is basically not to be a settler colonist and to ask yourself if it is your place to do work in indigenous studies if you are not indigenous [pretty much almost all the time, it is not your place]. 37/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race As indigenous groups have a history of settler colonial theft of their land, materials, artifacts, ideas, etc., they are, as historical and current examples have shown, logically hostile to academia 38/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race the academic industrial complex has long histories of theft & using them as “objects of research” as a white settler colonialists that steals their land, materials, artifacts, ideas w/out consent, collaboration, reciprocity, etc. 39/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race As Tuhiwai Smith says, "the notion of research as colonizing violence remains." In this way, methodology is massively important in CRT but especially in indigenous studies. 40/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race This is not just a convo happening in the humanities; have a look at things going on in the long history of anthropology, etc. Look at the hashtag#HauTalk or read https://anthrodendum.org . 41/Show this thread -
#MedievalTwitter#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race So already we have the issue of premodern race studies done by white settler medievalists who think they can inhabit premodern race studies b/c of their whiteness w/out the labor, reading, discussion, convo, & knowledge. 42/Show this thread - Show replies
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