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I would only add that BIPOC scholars get policed more and turned away from archives more- especially back in the day if we had temerity to say we were working on race. #ShakeRace #RaceB4Racehttps://twitter.com/Elysabethgrace/status/1281327139246100481 …
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Replying to @profgabrielle @ProfKFH
Have you had this? I feel American archives are way more surveillance-y than the UK ones. So many places wanting to watch me turn pages to check that I have done it correctly. The French ones want to give me tests every time.
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Also the American ones are the ones that tell me I can’t look at something even though arranged and requested. I show up, they say oh we have changed our mind w/out a reason. Though they stick me in the hallway next to the bathroom when I went to look at MSS at Westminster Abbey.
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Replying to @profgabrielle @ProfKFH
Though I did get a lot of amusement not long ago telling a particular NY library that I had to see a bunch of their MSS and financial provenance records & correspondence of their 1st director because I was keynoting a conference in celebration of their first director.
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That is one of the US ones where I previously had them watch me turn pages and stop me so they could readjust things.
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For medieval there is also the ?!?! Problems w/ certain archives in religious spaces. No access for women in certain Byzantine monasteries. The weird recusant catholic archives in the UK never email me back. There is some racist something there b/c I can wave the Catholic card.
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Vatican library is not a problem, but weird recusant Catholic abbey library is like a no.
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