#RaceB4Race A thread on division & specialization of academic intellectual labor (filters are intact): Let's stop reinforcing whyte hegemonic notions of academic disciplines when it comes to premodern race. (I write this as Margo Hendricks/EM Eng lit)
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Replying to @Elysabethgrace
I have been very struck by the absence of historians (esp. early modern) in RaceB4Race, but I read that as a history problem. It matters only insofar as disciplinary training gives us different tools, and different questions which are useful & challenging.
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Replying to @susandamussen
I agree, & with other disciplines. Long story made brief, when a colleague & I organized UCHRI residential group (then titled pre-and early modern studies) on race in 1996, w/ the exception of Ray Kea very little interest among historians.
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Replying to @Elysabethgrace @susandamussen
Even Women, Race & Writing was a difficult sell. Also, for those of us lit folk working w/race premodern, we extensively use "historians" tools to frame our historical/cultural/societal context. I think the "discipline issue" shld be a non-starter w/race.
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If you spent 60+ years ignoring the methodological shift in the social sciences and practicing white supremacist methodology of 1960, you are not going to train or have critical race scholars who are BIPOC and medievalists.
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