I was an EU student, so she got that wrong; I was earning the college exactly as much as she was. that didn't stop her from feeling superior though. #medievaltwitter
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In many ways, it was the worst of all the pieces I’ve read because it was so careful and moving and yet casually asserted this qualification for contributing to the field that eliminates POC and especially Black scholars from the field because they don’t connect to this place.
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right.
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this is a really important point (while at the same time, it really is not necessary to have grown up with the same kind of connection to place to be able to understand it)
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Agree, and I say something similar in my follow up. I sympathized with the point about scholars rolling in and out of London (again, only speaking to trends in my field), though there are structural reasons for that. But that’s different from being incapable of understanding.
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I just found the blogpost and I’ll simply point out that the same arguments deployed there were used throughout the 20th c to exclude Jews and people of color from American history faculties.
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It’s sad to me too that her own feelings of alienation haven’t led to empathy but to reinforce boundaries
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