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queer medievalist researching the global origins of ideas about sex/race in medieval English lit. helicopter parent to a kitty. phd. (he/him). views my own.

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    Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

    Thread: I want to briefly rehearse the problems with the term "Anglo-Saxon" as a medieval term. In sum, it is a term with a racist history--in both Europe and America--since the 19th century at least. It also was not the primary term used in the medieval period.

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      2. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        Many white scholars have been quibbling with this second point, saying that Alfred used it in some charters or it was part of his title, or that people on the continent, such as Paul the Lombard or the Carolingians, used the term. That is correct but ignores the larger point.

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      3. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        The term "Anglo-Saxon" is not the primarily self-ID of the group we traditionally call the Anglo-Saxons. Alfred and a few others use it somewhat in the 8th and 9th century. Then it largely dies out. See Susan Reynolds on this (screenshot). Most people called themselves "Englisch"pic.twitter.com/5j3FWH9OXa

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      4. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        (I would also ask why, given that a WoC is receiving death threats for suggesting changing the name, white scholars are spending SO MUCH TIME making historical quibbles)

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      5. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        Secondly: the term "Anglo-Saxon" (rather than the medieval "Anglosaxorum," etc) emerged largely in the 18th and 19th century as a direct result of racial Anglo-Saxonism in both the US *and* UK. This is well-documented. See two that I have screenshotted here.pic.twitter.com/S2wGchqaH2

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      6. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        Medievalists were VERY INVOLVED in this racist use of the term from the beginning. Horseman has shown how connected to this racist movement scholars like Edward Freeman, Sharon Turner, and Kemble were.

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      7. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        Medieval scholarship in the UK & US explicitly trafficked in racism. This is Jacob Abbott's 1862 History of King Alfred of England, which begins with a a theory of race that places Anglo-Saxons at the top. Abbott uses medieval studies to "prove" English racial superiority.pic.twitter.com/kus0g625Sv

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      8. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        The 1852 Jubilee Edition of the works of King Alfred, the 1st edition & translation of Alfred's works into mod English, traced a line from Alfred to Victoria: “To Queen Victoria the works of her illustrious forefather King Alfred the Great are respectfully dedicated” (Giles iii)

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      9. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        As Kathleen Biddick has shown, the Early English Text Society saw itself as promoting OE lit as part of an explicitly colonial mission. They said "We are banded together to trace the springs [...] of the language that shall one day be the ruling tongue of the world."pic.twitter.com/flpziNIdgA

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      10. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        Anglo-Saxonists in the early 20th-century directly worked with scientific racism in their scholarship, including phrenology. Kathleen Davis, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Biddick, Adam Miyashiro, & others have documented the connections between medieval studies, imperialism, & racism.

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      11. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        It's almost impossible to stop listing examples from within the field. There is also a huge white supremacist movement in Euro-America that has used the term "Anglo-Saxon" to justify racism violence and colonial genocide for at least 200 years.

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      12. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        While medievalists keep saying we shouldn't "give in" to racists who have "co-opted" the term by abandoning it. But the term has been a tool of racist for OVER TWO HUNDRED YEARS. It hasn't been co-opted. It was MADE for racism.

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      13. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        I am going to end with links to a series of scholarship by scholars of color who have been doing the hard work digging up the intersections between AS Studies and racism for years. Please read them, please listen to them, and please support them.

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      14. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        This is @adam_miya on the problems of the 2017 ISAS conference in Honolulu and the long racist history of "Anglo-Saxon" used in the Americas as part of colonial violence against indigenous peoples. http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2017/07/decolonizing-anglo-saxon-studies.html …

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      15. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        This is @slomuto on the problems of racism within medieval studies and the violence enacted in the name of the Middle Ages by white supremacists worldwide: http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2019/04/public-medievalism-and-rigor-of-anti.html?m=1 …

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      16. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        This is Dr. Rambaran-Olm on racism within AS Studies:https://medium.com/@mrambaranolm/anglo-saxon-studies-academia-and-white-supremacy-17c87b360bf3 …

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      17. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        And this is the Medievalist of Color statement of support for Dr. Rambaran-Olm in the aftermath of her resignation from ISAS after their use of her as a token and their failure to address problems of racism and sexual harassment in the field and org: https://medievalistsofcolor.com/race-in-the-profession/statement-of-support-for-dr-mary-rambaran-olm/ …

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      18. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        White ppl, please read & amplify the voices of scholars of color on these issues. Stop quibbling about proposed replacement names or historical details. Stop describing this as a US issue or a problem with external racists. The call is coming from inside the house on this one.

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      19. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade Retweeted Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade

        Update: this is the situation as it currently stands:https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1171872355611795457?s=21 …

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade added,

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade @erik_kaars
        If I am summarizing the ISASituation correctly, Dr. Rambaran-Olm resigned due to ISAS's failure to take action on sexual harassment & the inclusion of ECRs, as well as their inability to unanimously agree to forward the issue of the racist name to the members. #MedievalTwitter
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      20. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 11 Sep 2019

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade Retweeted Axel Folio, PhD, BFF of Mr. Bloodaxe

        And this is Dr. Rambaran-Olm’s statement on steps forward that ISAS should be taking: https://twitter.com/isasaxonists/status/1172027624912297989?s=21 … Please read and share

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade added,

        Axel Folio, PhD, BFF of Mr. Bloodaxe @ISASaxonists
        Morning ISAS, Since I was asked about points I want addressed in an email from someone representing you I will list them here: 1) Write and include a policy on harassment. Be firm with it and quit protecting predators. You owe victims an apology. 1/10 #MedievalTwitter pic.twitter.com/shePMG9HH9
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      21. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 20 Sep 2019

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade Retweeted Dr. Shyama R

        Two more examples:https://twitter.com/medievalphdemon/status/1174675644271251456?s=21 …

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade added,

        Dr. Shyama R @MedievalPhDemon
        Dexter Hawkins, "The Anglo Saxon Race," 1875, p22. Y'all. #medievaltwitter pic.twitter.com/epVMGzA9La
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      22. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 20 Sep 2019

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade Retweeted Rick Godden

        And:https://twitter.com/rickgodden/status/1175055280213647360?s=21 …

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade added,

        Rick Godden @RickGodden
        So, @MedievalPhDemon recently tweeted about this commencement address in 1875 at Syracuse University by Dexter Hawkins, "The Anglo-Saxon Race: Its History Character and Destiny." Well, holy shit. "Africa is being encircled as with a string of pearls by Anglo-Saxon colonies." pic.twitter.com/gyR5bs9157
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      23. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 25 Oct 2019

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade Retweeted Kevin Caliendo, PhD

        Another great example:https://twitter.com/kacaliendo/status/1187965104215736321?s=21 …

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade added,

        Kevin Caliendo, PhD @kacaliendo
        Thread: I figured it would be a cold day in hell before I ever shared anything Ann Coulter wrote but it's 45 degrees and I'm on twitter. Close enough. This thread illustrates yet another example of how the far right uses the term Anglo-Saxon to weaponize history.
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      24. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 29 Oct 2019

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade Retweeted Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade

        More detail on how little the term was used in the early medieval period:https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1188408954717646848 …

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade added,

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade @erik_kaars
        #MedievalTwitter THREAD: about "Anglo-Saxon" and the claim that the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and so on used it to identify themselves. People are saying it's a "neutral" term that these people used. Well. How many times do you think it appears in Old English sources? Three. pic.twitter.com/T58GA8N2P2
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      25. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Nov 2019

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade Retweeted Axel Folio, PhD, BFF of Mr. Bloodaxe

        An excellent summary of the term's racism and the current situation by @ISASaxonists:https://twitter.com/ISASaxonists/status/1191306933573242880 …

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade added,

        Axel Folio, PhD, BFF of Mr. Bloodaxe @ISASaxonists
        #medievaltwitter, I have a piece out in @HistoryWO on the term Anglo-Saxon, it’s history, use and misuse and how it has evolved. Please share. #academicchatter #academicracism #shakerace #BIPOC #ISXX #twittorstorians #iloveoldenglish https://twitter.com/HistoryWO/status/1191290532473036800 …
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      26. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 19 Nov 2019

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade Retweeted Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade

        More detail on the Latin uses of the term:https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1196460902649860096 …

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade added,

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade @erik_kaars
        Some people have said that academics advocating for using a different term are claiming that "Anglo-Saxon" was never used in the Middle Ages. No one is saying that. We're saying it was not the common term. A thread on the term "Anglo-Saxon" in Latin: #MedievalTwitter pic.twitter.com/Yn2NeYGtJ5
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