So earlier today, I tweeted a #ShakeRace thought re Things of Darkness and Early Modern Studies. Folks had such kind responses.https://twitter.com/ProfKFH/status/1222248531509071872?s=20 …
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But I should be clear: the book "did what it had to do" as Ira Madison III says on
#KeepIt. It credentialed me in a field I care deeply about, got me tenure and put me in conversation w/amazing scholars.2 replies 1 retweet 20 likesShow this thread -
But I'm irritated with my own naivete and self-doubt. I talk a bit about enforced forgetting in next book, but if I had known Dubois more deeply, I would have learned from him that you can never explain enuf how race works when people are determined not to hear it.
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I'm angry at my field that it took the global spread of wyte supremacy & death by wyte supremacy for more folks to take the study of race seriously.
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I'm also angry at the field for the students at all level who have been (and continue to be) gaslit by the erasure of
#ShakeRace#RaceB4Race. Students questions about race are still being dismissed --even they ever are made comfortable enough to raise them at all.1 reply 5 retweets 41 likesShow this thread -
Also pretty angry at folks in other disciplines still complaining about the dominance of literature in the study of early modern race. It's been THIRTY YEARS--more than enough time to train graduate students to do the work you think we should be doing
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But when you spend decades denying the existence of race, it puts you behind.
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I'm finally getting that I've been in what my people would call a "trick bag" where I am continually asked to write the same thing over & over or I hear the EXACT SAME THINGS I heard 30 years ago & I think its because I wasn't clear the first time.
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Replying to @ProfKFH
You need a stamp that says, “it’s in Things of Darkness” next time you get that ask. Seriously. The work you, Margo, Ian, Joyce, Ayanna, and Arthur have done was as urgent then as it is now. And you all have already said it.
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I really like this stamp idea.
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