Black Legacies

Ramey, Lynn

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“…There is a broad consensus that race is a modern concept and that 'social races' are products of modernity (Bernasconi 2001;Doron 2012;Goldberg 2002;Holt 2002;mills 1998;Omi & Winant 2015). However, this consensus is being called into question by scholars of the pre-modern (Hahn 2001;Heng 2011aHeng , 2011bisaac 2004;mcCoskey 2012;nirenberg 2009;ramey 2014;Thomas 2010;Whitaker 2015). What many of these pre-modernists are trying to demonstrate is that there were social groups with the properties social constructionists identify as 'racial' before modernity.…”

Section: A Metaphysical Argument Against Social Constructionismmentioning

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“…As Cord Whitaker notes, "the logic of race, with regard to whiteness and blackness, is already deeply ingrained in Latin Christian culture by the late middle Ages" (Whitaker 2015: 5). There are numerous historical sources that show that as early as the thirteenth century, medieval societies were preoccupied with skin color, coding dark skin as 'evil' and white skin color as 'good' (Hahn 2001;Lampert 2004;ramey 2014). White supremacist ideology became more virulent, more pervasive, more global, and more thoroughly institutionalized in modernity, but it is not modern in origin, and so does not cut history into pre-modern non-racial and modern racial periods.…”

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Replacing Race: Interactive Constructionism about Racialized Groups

Hochman¹

2017

Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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in this paper i defend anti-realism about race and a new theory of racialization. i argue that there are no races, only racialized groups. many social constructionists about race have adopted racial formation theory to explain how 'races' are formed. However, anti-realists about race cannot adopt racial formation theory, because it assumes the reality of race. i introduce interactive constructionism about racialized groups as a theory of racialization for anti-realists about race. interactive constructionism moves the discussion away from the dichotomous (social vs. biological) metaphysics that has marred this debate, and posits that racialized groups are the joint products of a broad range of non-racial factors, which interact.

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Section: A Metaphysical Argument Against Social Constructionismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Metaphysical Argument Against Social Constructionismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Replacing Race: Interactive Constructionism about Racialized Groups

Hochman¹

2017

Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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The birds and the Bedes: Race, gender, and sexuality in Bede’s In Cantica Canticorum

Wade

2020

Postmedieval

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This article argues that Bede – like modern intersectional analysis – believed that identity categories cannot be disentangled or understood in isolation. In Bede’s commentary on the Song of Songs, skin color, gender, and religious identity intermix with metaphors of sexuality. These categories coalesce in a monumental lesson on how to read. Bede claims that reading the Song literally – perceiving Black skin, eroticism, gender confusion – means reading like a Jew and prevents readers from seeing the feminine, metaphorical level below the masculine, carnal level. This article suggests that intersectional analysis is akin to much medieval thought rather than being an anachronistic imposition on a historical text. Intersectional analysis can lay bare how medieval theologians saw identity categories as interwoven and interdependent, even while the theologians themselves entrenched hierarchies of race, gender, sexuality, and religious difference. For Bede, Christian interpretation is a continual process of moving from a literal outside (Black, masculine, carnal, sexual) to a metaphorical inside (beautiful, feminine, allegorical, chaste, reproductive). Once inside, however, we – like the bird passing through the hall – must return once again to the outside in an endless movement between layers that echoes theological processes of rumination and blurs the divide between the contemplative and the active life.

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Dido and Laura in Carthage: White purity, epidermal race, and sexual violence in Petrarch’s Africa

Clines

2023

Postmedieval

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Black Legacies

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Replacing Race: Interactive Constructionism about Racialized Groups

Replacing Race: Interactive Constructionism about Racialized Groups

The birds and the Bedes: Race, gender, and sexuality in Bede’s In Cantica Canticorum

Dido and Laura in Carthage: White purity, epidermal race, and sexual violence in Petrarch’s Africa

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