Today I am rereading Robert Bartlett's important (super Euro-focused) essay, "Medieval and Modern Concepts of Race and Ethnicity." funfunfun: http://www.unife.it/stum/lingue/insegnamenti/letteratura-inglese-ii/materiale-didattico-anno-accademico-2018-2019/Robert%20Bartlett-%20Race%20and%20Ethnicity-%202001.pdf …
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Yeah he fails to outline a robust definition of race from the start, which is a pretty big tip-off. But I do think it is valuable that he notes pre-modern ideas of race accommodated change and development, which is at least a *nod* to constructivism....very, very obliquely.
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A big issue with it imho is that he assumes everyone was a post-Hellenic rationalist who cared most about climate in race-making, which is so classed and textualist. In medieval Arabic geographies, e.g., that poses a theoretical constraint you just don't find much elsewhere.
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