#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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And then how few BIPOC scholars in history there are... and then do they do critical race.... so if one wants to use an analogy, it is as if one field area decided to base all their gender work on definitions of 1950s gender (sex)—so cisgendered, binary, etc. why would 2/
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A critical gender research group doing recent work have ppl speak that basically are speaking about gender in a 1950s bubble? This would never get onto a panel at the National Women’s Studies Association. So consider that rubric & do we have medieval historians being accepted 3/
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