Antiracist Medievalisms

Hsy, Jonathan

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“…Fear and the absence of rationalism, lack of trust, and the rejection of ancestral family members within the global human community are some of the critical factors in this entire phenomenon (Ekotto 2023; she engages, above all, with James Baldwin in his conversation with Margaret Mead; Baldwin 1971). As Jonathan Hsy now argues, many minority groups across the world are actually turning to the medieval past to fight modern-day racism (Hsy 2021), which adds a rather curious twist to the issue to be discussed here. And as Margo Hendricks emphasizes, the investigation of pre-modern racism or concepts of race allows us to recognize better the current discourse and to prepare ourselves for the future (Henricks 2021).…”

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Blacks in the Middle Ages – What About Race and Racism in the Past? Literary and Art-Historical Reflections

Classen

2023

Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities

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Undoubtedly, racism is a deeply-anchored problem that continues to vex our world. There is a long history behind it, which can easily be traced back to the Middle Ages and beyond. This article, however, takes into consideration a number of medieval narratives and art works in which surprisingly positive images of Blacks are provided. The encounter with black-skinned people tended to create problems even for the best-intended white intellectuals or poets during the pre-modern era, but the examples studied here reveal that long before the modern age there was already an alternative discourse to embrace at least individual Blacks as equals within the courtly and the religious context. Since Europe did not yet know the large-scale form of slavery, as it emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there were much less contacts between Blacks and Whites. Nevertheless, the evidence brought to the table here clearly signals that we would commit a serious mistake by equating modern-day racism with the situation in the Middle Ages, as much as modern research (Heng) has argued along those lines. It would be more appropriate to talk about the encounter of races within the literary and art-historical context. Even the notion of Black diaspora would not fully address the issue because the evidence brought to the table here engages mostly with black or half-black knights and other individuals who enjoy considerable respect and appear to be integral members of courtly society both in the East and in the West. Instead of working with theoretical models developed for the analysis of racism in our own times, such as Critical Race Theory (CRT), this study offers close readings of literary examples of personal encounters between members of different races in medieval German and Dutch literature, and of the representation of Blacks in late medieval and early modern art history, concluding with some comments on the first Black philosopher in eighteenth-century Germany.

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Blacks in the Middle Ages – What About Race and Racism in the Past? Literary and Art-Historical Reflections

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2023

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“…COVID-19 unveils racism in the United Nations and the implications Since the onset of COVID-19 in late 2019, the world has been hearing more about cases of racism and discrimination in terms of online threats, anti-Asian threats, anti-Black threats, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, lack of access to fair medical treatment for people of color, an increase in gender harassment and assaults, and many other forms of discrimination (Hsy, 2021). The UN was created with a commitment to "maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights" (United Nations Preamble, 2022).…”

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Leave No One Behind: how systemic racism impacts Sustainable Development Goals

Ebron

Luzynski

Komanski

2023

IJPL

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PurposeThis paper critiques how the member states adopted the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a concerted effort to improve the lives and meet the basic needs of all global citizens. COVID-19 has been an unexpected precipitous monitoring system that has exposed the current implemented policies and systems, begging the question, “are these goals failing?” Furthermore, may it be equated to failed leadership on a global scale? The UN 17 SDGs is an urgent call for union by all countries – developed and developing – recognizes that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality and spur economic growth. This paper is central to addressing the shortcomings of UN leadership and multilateral organizations. The UN coordinates multilateral organizations' actions in reaching the most marginalized communities (United Nations, 2015). Hence, these outcomes have become more distant to those without means and most in need, a likely consequence of program failure and our globalized world. The pandemic has taught us national solutions to global problems fall short and may only exacerbate the outcome. The authors approach this as a failure of global leadership. The UN's pledge to “Leave No One Behind” has undermined its commitment to poverty and inequalities of racism and sectarianism. The UN staff are often unprepared to deal with the issues they have contributed to. They continue to perpetuate the inequalities that stem from racism and discrimination even though the pledge is to leave no one behind. The 17 SDGs are designed to impact citizens' health and livelihood. The goals have direct and indirect effects on women, children and the most marginalized groups residing in urban cities across the globe. This article examines systemic racism and the UN and its impact on the SDGs’ agenda.Design/methodology/approachThis article proposes a human-centered approach to address leadership inadequacies in a global public leadership institution using a literature review and contemporary cases.FindingsThis article argues a premise for the UN institutions to adapt their leadership approaches to better understand the global communities with whom they serve.Practical implicationsThis article is directed to multi-lateral leaders and governments in hopes to expose inequities and hypocrisies in order to advance more inclusive and culturally responsive approaches to tackle the most challenging social issues the world faces.Originality/valueThis article draws on current events of racism that challenge one of the largest global institutions and can potentially undermine the achievement of meeting the 2030 UN SDGs for any country.

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‘A beginning for them all’: The medieval pluriverse of Gloria Naylor’s ‘Sapphira Wade’

Edwards

2023

Postmedieval

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Antiracist Medievalisms

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Blacks in the Middle Ages – What About Race and Racism in the Past? Literary and Art-Historical Reflections

Blacks in the Middle Ages – What About Race and Racism in the Past? Literary and Art-Historical Reflections

Leave No One Behind: how systemic racism impacts Sustainable Development Goals

‘A beginning for them all’: The medieval pluriverse of Gloria Naylor’s ‘Sapphira Wade’

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