JM wonders how post-pandemic theater will reflect us differently. The invevitability of change is clear, but not yet how. #RaceB4Race 41/
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Jonathan’s Q: how might BIPOC scholars prepare to encounter/engage w/ difficult, violent matter in the archive or performance? JM: I feel it is our duty. If we don’t, who will? Who cares as much, who will see it done responsibly & w/ care? It’s my duty.
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JM: reading 18C poems normalizing rape of Black women—if we don’t read & talk abt them in OUR critical ways, these women will be left out of repr. Can’t leave these texts to ppl who don’t care. PR: ways of knowing wewere taught we must unlearn to see archive diff.
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PR notes this is an epistemological work. [And this is def what I was thinking about w/ kanaka “stacking” as one mode of our multiple historical/knowledge methods ] - seeing the recent thru the old as a new way of knowing.
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RB: I sometimes follow the pain b/c it tells me where the work lies. Thinks about also the fear & danger potential in a real way, as someone subject to attacks.
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Whitaker considers the studied enslaved person as “an historical isolate,” asks: what a world where we undo the legacy of genealogical isolation might look like?
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JM: thinking about this Black isolation, looks at the role of the domestic structures in this issue. What if reimagining the domestic as the scene of racialization/racial rules flowed from reordering the household, reconfiguring intimate connections.
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PR shouts out EOS Africana, classicists reconfiguring work on classical texts w/ each other, along w/
#RaceB4Race as also this kind of reconfiguring. RB finds w/ his students on diff. tactics to work w/ survey books, sources [“hacking” the hegemonic?].#RaceB4Race 48/1 reply 1 retweet 2 likesShow this thread -
RB: See the metadata of all we know as arising out of the erasure of subjectivities from medievalisms.
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And that wraps up today’s
#RaceB4Race : Politics panel!! Wowza! Wish we were all in Waltham to continue the discussion after thunderous applause for all of the speakers! Hope to catch everyone tomorrow for the final day. 50/50#aloha3 replies 2 retweets 4 likesShow this thread
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