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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 7 Jan 2018

    #mla18 I got to sessions late and didn’t livetweet bc I wasn’t sure what the social media policy was and had missed the intro BUT the ASESoWhite session and the Approaching 1492 were both excellent, vital discussions of race and racism in medieval studies

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      2. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Jan 2018

        The major points that kept coming up were the homogenous whiteness of Anglo Saxon studies in particular, the racist/nationalist baggage of that name, and how we must decolonize our pedagogy AND our field and methods. Need more support for MOC.

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      3. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Jan 2018

        Donna Beth Ellard showed that the term Anglo Saxonist becomes more popular during times of colonial activity, after British losses of empire, and after 9/11, suggesting it is a form of “colonial melancholy.” We must reckon with this as a field.

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      4. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Jan 2018

        @EduardoRamosii demonstrated how the Middle Ages have been white washed to justify and legitimate white supremacy. Also discussed racist incident he experienced at conference and popular misunderstanding of Vinland as an early state, not failed settlement.

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      5. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Jan 2018

        Tiffany Beech laid out the two problems of AS studies: exterior popular misunderstandings and misuse of Middle Ages by white supremacists and the field’s internal whiteness and racism. Suggests that historicism often a way to avoid these discussions.

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      6. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Jan 2018

        @cmthomas asked a great question about practical approaches to tackling racism in our field and to retaining MOC, a question that I felt never got completely addressed and which is clearly vital to what we need to address as a field.

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      7. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Jan 2018

        @dorothyk98 pointed out that we need to decolonize our pedagogy, meaning, we need to question the OE monolingual paradigm, consider how nationalism has infiltrated our teaching. Asked where Hebrew texts are in our Brit Lit surveys.

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      8. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Jan 2018

        My notes aren’t as good for the later 1492 session but the discussions of race and persistent reminder that race does not mean skin color were vital.

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      9. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Jan 2018

        There was good and important pushback at the idea of Mandeville’s Travels as cosmopolitan or open to difference, as well as at the idea that race was always see as fluid in the Middle Ages.

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      10. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Jan 2018

        What I got from both sessions was an emphasis that we can’t simply assume white supremacists don’t read medieval texts or that we must just be more historically accurate. Such an emphasis often ignores how “correct history” is used to police people in field

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      11. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Jan 2018

        We also need to wrestle with the racism and racial politics of these texts, which may prefigure certain later formations.

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      12. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Jan 2018

        But our emphasis on combating white supremacist and popular misconceptions cannot overshadow our need to decolonize our field and address its racism and lack of support for MOC. How to address this must be answered. MOC need to be centered in these convos.

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      13. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 7 Jan 2018

        @dorothyk98 has great live tweeting of both sessions which you should check out!

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