Friends the Playlist for LOVE: A #RaceB4Race Symposium is up on YouTube!!! Check out the 🔥🔥!! #ShakeRace #earlymodern #BlackSky #historysky
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Can’t wait!! It’s gonna be popping’ and you won’t want to miss out!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
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The incredible Nile Rodgers concluding LOVE: A RaceB4Race Symposium @acmrs.bsky.social
He sang a few bars of “Sugar, Sugar” which means he wants you to buy my book. 😂😂😂. #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
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We should elevate “loving dictionaries” as a methodology #RaceBeforeRace
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“I don’t need to love a field that fails to love me. I don’t need white supremacy to tell
me my worth.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
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“The Freedom to do research gives me a place to plant my feet” 🥹🥹
I would go to any Happy Hate Party she throws!
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Sanchez uses Xandra Ibarra to think outline the ways Queer Feminist of Color/Queer of Color critique is read (or not) "We relegate them to the ashes of history rather than learn from them." #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
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I will have to read the Gates' piece. Am wondering if he takes into account the economic precarity and cross-country movement of so many Black Arts creators? You need space to keep an archive. #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
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We need more "only answer if it's fun" questions at conferences!!!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
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I'm already 😭!! Ayanna drawing on bell hooks, being truthful about how faculty are encouraged to mock students who talk about their love in applications and noting that the #RaceB4Race community has long loved a field that often did not love us back. #ShakeRace
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I expect to see such use in response to reader’s reports saying, you haven’t engaged with #ShakeRace #PCRS scholarship. Folks have lowkey been asking us to automate discussion of race for awhile now. #RaceB4Race
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Guess which Regency figure I’d have tea with? Hear me discuss sugar, archives, #quilts, #quilting and my next book project!
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#booksky
#history
#artsky
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🚨🚨pls share! THIS THURSDAY! It's not too late to register (and you can always hop on YouTube at any point) for this fab live discussion w/ @triciamatthew.bsky.social, @kwazana.bsky.social Jennifer Morgan, Depabriya Sarkar & Tapiwa Gambura. #Booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #historysky #Blacksky
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Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history
bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...
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I’m overjoyed to announce that my article “Becoming a Wolf: Indigenous Pedagogies and Settler Supervision in Sayet's Where We Belong” has been published open access in Literature Compass: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #shakerace #adaptation #pedagogy
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Engaging with the work of scholars of color who explored issues of race in early modern English literature provided me with points of access to the field that were otherwise unavailable in my immediate academic setting. In their scholarship, I found diverse and innovative methods for thinking through questions of difference. The range of their work helped me to imagine my research speaking to a different type of academic community, one in which I was not minoritized —intellectually, racially, or culturally-and thus one that was not as burdened with the cognitive tax of translation and assimilation. And where their writing spoke to the challenges of inclusivity in early modern studies, it helped prepare me to navigate the field. I distinctly remember rereading the epilogue to Hall's seminal Things of Darkness-from which the above quotations about teaching the sonnets are drawn—after a particularly discouraging experience at an academic conference. Hall's critique enabled me to better understand that the type of hostility my work could invite
was part of a broader dynamic that needed to be shifted. The crucial insights I found in the work of scholars like Hall encouraged me to continue working, providing me with a sense of belonging that helped counter the various signals suggesting that I was out of place.
![Scholarship in Premodern Critical Race Studies - as opposed to studies of "race" —must begin with complicity. To rest on demarcations between Past and present constructed from above, to accept an enslaver-based historiography-one that emphasizes speed and inevitability—s to use early modern race scholarship to forget our citizenship, to consign ourselves to the larger regimes of depersonalization and civil death that shape our worlds today. Instead of fetishizing fluidity as the primary difference in early modern racialism-as an inaccurate hard line between early modern racialisms and our own, we might instead embrace Dayan's refusal of sequentiality and innocence, while at the same time considering healing as the focus of our work. Dayan's first chapter tells the story of the first-century healer, Appolo-nius of Tyana, who cures a boy of a rabid dog's bite (one of the many "white dogs" evoked by her title) by finding the dog and having him lick the boy's wound in a public ritual, a process that cures both the boy and the dog. In Dayan's hands, this is not just a story of healing as mimesis ("the way out of harm... is through the thing that caused the harm" [37]) but one of transformation and "plenitude": "The dog is renewed, indeed graced with sen-tience, gratitude, and recognition: not penalized but personalized, for life not for death" (38). Most of us are not trained to think of scholarship as public ritual; however, when we encounter questions of race in our conferences, dissertation committees, and classrooms, we need to ask whether we are performing public rituals of negation or of healing, of penalization or of personalization.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hqklsosnm7fhf4buq275kgbe/bafkreidjmkhm5rnrad7iscc5vjkriimleqnyu2mj4nnxme2kkp6tzz6xie)
Scholarship in Premodern Critical Race Studies - as opposed to studies of "race" —must begin with complicity. To rest on demarcations between Past and present constructed from above, to accept an enslaver-based historiography-one that emphasizes speed and inevitability—s to use early modern race scholarship to forget our citizenship, to consign ourselves to the larger regimes of depersonalization and civil death that shape our worlds today. Instead of fetishizing fluidity as the primary difference in early modern racialism-as an inaccurate hard line between early modern racialisms and our own, we might instead embrace Dayan's refusal of sequentiality and innocence, while at the same time considering healing as the focus of our work. Dayan's first chapter tells the story of the first-century healer, Appolo-nius of Tyana, who cures a boy of a rabid dog's bite (one of the many "white dogs" evoked by her title) by finding the dog and having him lick the boy's wound in a public ritual, a process that cures both the boy and the dog. In Dayan's hands, this is not just a story of healing as mimesis ("the way out of harm... is through the thing that caused the harm" [37]) but one of transformation and "plenitude": "The dog is renewed, indeed graced with sen-tience, gratitude, and recognition: not penalized but personalized, for life not for death" (38). Most of us are not trained to think of scholarship as public ritual; however, when we encounter questions of race in our conferences, dissertation committees, and classrooms, we need to ask whether we are performing public rituals of negation or of healing, of penalization or of personalization.
Kyle Grady’s “‘The Miseducation of Irie Jones’: Representation and Identification in the
Shakespeare Classroom” contending with what I call “public rituals of negation” in my *The Sweet Taste of Empire* #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
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a windowsill holding a ceramic pot in the shape of a skull. To the left is the book *The Sweet Taste of Empire*
HEY, HEY my book came y’all!! Props to my neighbor who always has greenery in the windowsill 😂 #RaceBeforeRace
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🚨🚨So excited that the Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting the virtual launch for *Sweet Taste of Empire,* published by @pennpress.bsky.social. We have an incredible lineup!!!!!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
10.30.2025 | 6:30pm EST| register here!
bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...
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Central to my imminent book, Sweet Taste of Empire, is showing that the inability to look at the actual brutality of slavery is baked into the very beginnings of English slavery in the Caribbean & is 1 of the reasons Black Women are peculiarly absent in 17th century narratives
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an independent researcher on women’s interoperative pain— reminds me of early days of #ShakeRace
“I had to create a version of myself that could stand & speak_& all the time, I was having 2 kind of censor myself in how I was doing it.” #RaceB4Race
The Retrievals
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Cover image of Kathryn Vomero Santos's Shakespeare in Tongues featuring a colorful collage by Fausto Fernandez.
A graphic with text that reads: “Shakespeare in Tongues is a sharp, ingenious, and urgent exploration of the reach and limits of Shakespeare’s linguistic legacy. With impressive breadth and deftness, this book shows us how issues of race, land, and language are deeply intertwined, and how they influence imaginings of Shakespeare’s purchase today.” Ruben Espinosa, Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University
A graphic with text that reads: “A must-read for those interested in how Indigenous and Latine artists repurpose Shakespeare’s works to resist the colonial and racist ideologies underpinning U.S. education. Rather than equating Shakespeare with English, Shakespeare in Tongues opens up space for more multicultural, polylingual, and liberating engagements with his works.” Carla Mazzio, author of The Inarticulate Renaissance: Language Trouble in an Age of Eloquence
A graphic that reads: Save 20% on Shakespeare in Tongues Use code 25AFLY2* www.routledge.com/9781032274492
Happy pub day to Shakespeare in Tongues!
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#ShakeRace #RaceB4Race #Shakespeare
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She wrote her dissertation on Thomas Heywood! #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race
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🙌🏾🙌🏾 “Our scholarship is a form of resistance to the threats posed by the ascendent far right and its adherents in the US government. That it enrages the White House is a sign it has never been more important.”
Proud to have co-edited a #ShakeRace essay cluster for this journal!” #RaceB4Race
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Way, way past time
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The Black guy looks like a figure from a Renaissance painting and it’s going to drive me crazy until I think of it #ShakeRace #RaceBeforeRace
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