#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 @Elysabethgrace
Historians are also reluctant to do CRT in the premodern because of “anachronism”. They also don’t look at our texts as evidence whereas we are always consulting their archive.
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as I said in the LitCompass intro., at least for medieval there are 2 genealogies of race work. The historian one stuck in eugenicist pre-1960 land and then the one by usually lit. Scholars who read CRT+indigenous studies. Religious studies is good as well. But consider that..1/
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