Oh dear, just read the Fulton Brown post. I'm not a medievalist but I HAVE THOUGHTS. (that'll wait til I get home so I can look s'thing up.)
-
Show this thread
-
But for now: reception theory seems like a thing of relevance that RFB could consider?
1 reply 1 retweet 8 likesShow this thread -
Found what I was looking for: as I said, particularly egregious in the RFB piece is the invocation of Bill Jordan.
1 reply 2 retweets 10 likesShow this thread -
He is mentioned numerous times, basically as a bulwark against the idea that medieval studies could be white supremacist.
1 reply 1 retweet 7 likesShow this thread -
And yet: Bill Jordan was also a senior medievalist when this special issue dropped in 2001: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/content/31/1.toc … (h/t to
@graceishuman)2 replies 2 retweets 8 likesShow this thread -
The first article's opening premise is about the spectacle of a black man (not Jordan) invited to speak at the Kalamazoo annual conference.
1 reply 2 retweets 7 likesShow this thread -
A field where a 2001 special issue can start by ogling at a black man's presence at a conference is a field with a problem.
1 reply 2 retweets 13 likesShow this thread -
And pretending that there isn't a problem by trotting out another black man makes matters so much worse.
1 reply 2 retweets 9 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @seefryar
Yup. All of this. Many of us cannot with that issue's opening.
1 reply 2 retweets 10 likes -
Replying to @dorothyk98
when I read that issue for the first time my mouth literally fell open.
1 reply 3 retweets 6 likes
So much updating required. Yup.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.