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 @RachelSchine
It would be nice if they would read what the rest of the social sciences are up to at the very least. I get the sense they will ignore the literature folks and religious studies and art history folks etc. but they could check in w/ their larger area.
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Replying to @dorothyk98
Yeah I'd have no leg to stand on if it weren't for CRT, and it's often strange to see people pay lip service to it without understanding its history and context, to say nothing of current scholarship. I like to think folks are getting better about much of this, though...
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Replying to @RachelSchine @dorothyk98
...perhaps I'm being overly optimistic.
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I still get the “but they didn’t say race then” question. I am like, they also did not say Medieval, Middle Ages, gender, class etc. and your point?
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Replying to @RachelSchine
We should just do handouts and say other questions than this.
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