#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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#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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