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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Replying to @RachelSchine
It is an article stuck in a definition from the 50s. It really amazes me that he can use a white supremacist and eugenicist definition of race and still do some terrible racist contemporary stereotypes and that is considered fine.
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Replying to @dorothyk98
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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Replying to @RachelSchine
The book also does nothing. If the point of his articles and book is he gets to Willy nilly arbitrate b/c of his random hunches. No. His art history article is just a long oh look here oh look there I have decided because litany. He uses no frame. It’s terrible.
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Replying to @dorothyk98
Ah I haven't read the book, lol, good to know! Thank you.
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Replying to @RachelSchine
The lack of footnotes is hair tearing. We are literally writing in the style of the 1950s. I would expect Michael Gomez’s work would be more useful especially his new stuff on race and Islam and West Africa.
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Replying to @dorothyk98
Oh yeah, I rely heavily on Gomez. I was revisiting Bartlett for part of a lit review where I'd made an argument I have long since forgotten the support for! :)
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Replying to @RachelSchine
It is very difficult to use the medieval history race work mostly b/c they all are stuck in pre-civil right eugenicist definitions and have avoided 60 years of race scholarship in the social sciences. It is like a funhouse white supremacist bubble.
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Replying to @dorothyk98
hahaha yeah I have often wondered at the lack of....nuance.... but thankfully that's starting to change! In my field addressing race-related topics in pre-modernity hardly happens at all so I'm one to talk.
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It appears it was a white supremacist stance they took and then never let go of when the rest of history decided to work on concepts discussed post-Civil Rights. They have not had to reckon w/ that until now.
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