Imagine thinking race didn’t exist in the EM period. #ShakeRace https://twitter.com/QueenMab87/status/1270782080633495562 …
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Replying to @jshelat1
Imagine not reading any early modern race work but commenting on it anyway.
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Replying to @DrDadabhoy @jshelat1
I think she's read it. She's written like a historian - if I read correctly setting up a difference between what happens when chattel slavery makes skin color the key marker of race, and the structures of difference that exist before.
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Replying to @susandamussen @jshelat1
The problem is how she’s suggesting that chattel slavery is the only way in which race was yoked 2 skin color. We know from earlier periods that this isn’t true. Even if it was, the Portuguese and Spanish were enslaving in this period&using skin color&culture as justification.
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Replying to @DrDadabhoy @jshelat1
I know that. The language we have is not always helpful for communicating both the continuities and the changes, and as historians we get hung up on that.
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Replying to @susandamussen @jshelat1
That's more of a disciplinary issue than one of erasing the fact that race existed in the period, though. In literary studies we're comfortable pointing to the shifting, incoherent, and unstable project of racial formation.
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So I find this weird b/c the literary people are the ones whose disciplinary history is intertwined w/ philology. History is not, or you all wouldn't be using terms like class, gender, engineering. The main issue, at least w/ medievalists, is a historiography on race stuck
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in pre-eugenicist, thus pre-Civil Rights definition, and thus stuck in a white supremacist historical methodology. It is not about the term. It is about decades of training & terrible scholarship.
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I think much of the same is true for early modern race and C19. That's why there's even a debate about what Moor means.
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