So if your response to this article is #notallacademics or #notallmedievalists, here's what you're missing (thread):
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Medievalists-Recoiling-From/240666 …
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2 The alt-right uses our field and there are even some alt-righters IN our field. It isn't enough to be personally not racist.
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3 Changing the field requires activism. Look at your syllabus. What do you teach? What do you research? What do your students research?
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4 What languages do you encourage them to learn? If you are passive about this, or if you see diversity as "niche"-someone else's problem,
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5 ...for other people to solve, not you, then you're perpetuating white supremacy in the field.
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