Upcoming, panel “Building Inclusivity and Diversity: Challenges, Solutions, and Responses in Medieval Studies,” #maa2018
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Heng: who decides what is canonical or important? Own work in global MA is shaped by her subject, position, makes it easier to identify “acts of race.” Book “Invention of Race in European MA” appearing next week.
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Heng: Why was Global MA so widely accepted when Race in MA met with so much resistance? The latter makes the field complicit.
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Heng: This is not a plea for inclusion, this is a statement of the gains to the field by including us
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Cord Whitaker: accepts Heng’s def of race as “structural relationship for the management of human differences, rather than a substantive content.” Man of Laws’ tale as example of race thinking. Own experience in Honduras has had impact on his thinking
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