Part III: Premodern Critical Race: Middle Ages

Th. 10/22: Critical Race and the Middle Ages Introduction

• Topic: Church Fathers and Beginnings
  • Dorothy Kim: “Critical Race and the Middle Ages”(pdf)
  • Geraldine Heng, “The Invention of Race: Introduction”(docx)
  • Cord Whitaker, “Race-ing the Past”(link goes to journal site)
    • (Dropbox Link for pdf)

 

Week 10

T. 10/27: Critical Race and the Middle Ages Introduction (continued)

• Adam Miyashiro, “Our Deeper Past: Race, Settler Colonialism, and Medieval Heritage Politics”(link to journal: PAYWALL)
  • I am working on getting this article. In the meantime, here is a talk he gave at ACMRS January 2020: Appropriations:
    • Adam Miyashiro "Appropriating the Crusades: Were the Crusades a Form of Medieval Colonialism?"
    • Or you can get a free ecopy of an edited volume his work appears in, Disturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures, at the publisher's website: Punctum Books
     
• Clare Downham, “Vikings were Never the Pure-Bred Master Race White Supremacists Like to Portray” (link to website)
• Race and Periodization Opening Lectures from the RaceB4Race Symposium(transcripts and audio available from the Folger)
  • You can also watch videos of events from the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies on their YouTube channel
• Geraldine Heng, “The Invention of Race: Introduction”(docx)


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Th. 10/29: “Vikings,” Vinland, and North America

• Jonathan Hsy, “Native, Norse, Other” (link to website)
• Geraldine Heng, “A Global Race in the European Imaginary: Native Americans in the North Atlantic” (ebook available with Brandeis Login) (institutional block)
• Joseph Bruchac, “The Ice-Hearts" (no link)

 

Week 11

T. 11/3: NA for Black Atlantic Students

Th. 11/5:A Tale of Three Saints

• St. Margaret (Katherine Group) (link to website; primary source)
• Eric Lott, “Love and Theft: The Racial Unconscious of Blackface Minstrelsy” (pdf- automatically downloads when you click this link))
• Zoe Samudzi, “Who Are You and What Do you Really Know?”(link to website; we read this earlier)
• Ijeoma Oluo, “The Heart of Whiteness”(link to website)

Week 12

T. 11/10: A Tale of Three Saints

• St. Mary of Egypt (Byzantine Version) (no link;primary source)
• Roland Bettancourt, “Introduction” and “The Virgin’s Consent” Byzantine Intersectionality (available via HU Library)
• Dorothy Kim and G.W. Bychowski, “Visions of Medieval Trans Feminism” (journal link)


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Th. 11/12: The Life of Walatta Petros

• The Life of Walatta Petros(This is accessible through Howard's library)
  • There is also a concise edition that you may access via HU library
• Wendy Belcher, “Same-Sex Intimacies in the Early African Text Gädlä Wälättä Peṭros (1672): Queer Reading an Ethiopian Woman Saint” (Howard Library Link; use your id to log in)
  • Belcher also writes about academia publishing, which you might be interested in.
• British Library Ethiopian Manuscripts (website)
• Please have a look at the poems of to Walatto Petros and the audio file of what one poem sounds like.

Week 13

T. 11/17: Travels

• Ibn Batuttah, The Travels of Ibn Batuttah (amazon link)
• Michael Gomez, “Part II: Imperial Mali” African Dominion(amazon link)
• Geraldine Heng and Lynn Ramey, “Early Globalities”(academia.edu link; you can download this or read it online with an account)
  • Alternatively, here is a DropBox link for it
• Watch one or all of these three lectures from Michael Gomez:
  • Michael Gomez Hutchin Center talks:
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcmwua6wkPw
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYSLq1e7gMc
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAcFwRPu8J4
     

    Th. 11/19: Travels, Continued

     
    • Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, “The Depoliticized Saracen and Muslim Erasure” (no link)
    • John Mandeville, Mandeville’s Travels (amazon)
    • Geraldine Heng, “The Mongol Empire: Global Race as Absolute Power” (no link)
    • British Library Manuscript of Mandeville’s Travels .(link to website)