#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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#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 -
#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/Show this thread -
#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/Show this thread -
#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/Show this thread -
#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.Show this thread
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