#SHEAR2020 there are useful points here but I am confused. I am an editor of a medieval archive. I have reviewed for the NEH 2x in this category. That does not mean that your discussion of the archive is Neutral. This is not an excuse to say that Jackson paper editor is just 1/https://twitter.com/rsjensen12345/status/1284607917958864897 …
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The amazing work in the Critical Archive issue: https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/50 …
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I taught this 2 weeks after it came out in my Literary Mediascapes class (yes, I do a long book history class folks Parchment to Arduino)
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I am delayed (oh COVID), but I am writing an entire thing about Bella Da Costa Greene's manuscript collection & Whiteness and Property & how radical cataloging may show various forms of Black woman's resistance to the world of 20th c. rare book libraries & archives.
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So no, I really don't understand why someone being a "documentary editor" is somehow the reason why he is a settler colonial racist scholar. Please do not use the, "book history" "Documentary Editor" excuse. Please, Editing is not NEUTRAL & never has been.
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As a medievalist, you know how many scribes in the premodern archive were interventionist, racist, sexist, ableist, terrible af. MANY. Am I going to go around & say, Chaucer is not a racist, rapist, antisemitic tool of white supremacist empire. No. (said it multiple times).
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So why is being a "documentary editor" of Jackson's papers somehow the reason why Feller is what he is. I would really suggest people reexamine this very several decades behind scholarly on scholarly editing. Do not use this as the shield for his terrible. It is not.
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Though book history and scholarly editing folks, you all need to figure out why this is even being used as a shield and where your antiracist, decolonial, Black feminist, queer, trans, and disability conversations are happening.
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