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Medievalist, digital humanist, intersectional feminist. She/her/hers.

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    1. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

      #MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race that pieces that the best review commentary to make the best revisions. So w/ this in mind, I am now going to discuss the Beowulf volume & its clear lack of critical race expertise & basic understanding. 8/

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    2. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

      #MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race This is especially clear in its work on indigenous studies. As I have made clear in several talks, I am a settler of color & believe in situating oneself (autoethnography) in discussing CRT & especially indigenous studies work. 9/

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    3. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

      #MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race I am not going to go piece-by-piece into the Beowulf, Race, Ethnicity article but rather point to areas in that article that I have seen numerous other white medievalists make similar mistakes. 10/

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    4. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

      #MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race These errors reflect the field’s shallow, settler colonial research skills and agendas. The Beowulf, Race, Ethnicity article as well as other pieces in the volume exemplify Margo Hendrick’s point that white medievalists 11/

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    5. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

      #MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race practice settler colonial tactics of white settler theft & take over the research land w/ regards to premodern race studies. I have already tweeted @ this + Beowulf vol. You can read & listen to her talk here: https://bit.ly/39TIBlU  12/

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    6. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

      #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/

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    7. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

      #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/

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    8. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

      #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/

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    9. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

      #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/

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    10. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

      #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/

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      Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

      #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/

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        2. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        3. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        4. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        5. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        6. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        7. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        8. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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 …

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        9. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        10. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        11. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        12. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        13. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race Moreover, it can lapse into some serious racist moments by putting “monsterization” together with “indigeneity.” 30/

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        14. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        15. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        16. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        17. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        18. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        19. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        20. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        21. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        22. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        23. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        24. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        25. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #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/

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        26. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race And then, white settler colonists have decided to do academic theft by literally erasing the presence of indigenous medieval scholar(s), one of whom has publicly written & spoken about Beowulf & indigenous biopolitics for years. 43/

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        27. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race Pretty much everyone in Old English studies read Adam’s Hawaii post, if not heard his Albuquerque talk. If the scholars did not know the bibliography, then the two editors absolutely did. 44/

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        28. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race One was definitely at both conferences and in fact tweeted out Adam’s Hawaii post. So what is this other than to claim scholarly territory and basically erase the activist work and scholarship of BIPOC scholars? 45/

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        29. Dr. Dorothy Kim‏ @dorothyk98 6 Jan 2020

          #MedievalTwitter #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race and yet we haven't heard from either editors or @ManchesterUP So basically the M.O. at the moment appears to be pretending these indigenous scholars & their work do not exist & is a double form of settler colonial violence. 46/Fin.

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