Race B4 Race Readings Part III
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)
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
- I am working on getting this article. In the meantime, here is a talk he gave at ACMRS January 2020: Appropriations:
- 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)
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)
Th. 11/12: The Life of Walatta Petros
- The Life of Walatta Petros(This is accessible through Howard's 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)
- 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)
- Michael Gomez Hutchin Center talks: