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from the article... "There were people with many different racial backgrounds, religious backgrounds, all present … in Western Europe,” Grollemond pointed out.
by RappingBoomer 4y ago
from the article...
"There were people with many different racial backgrounds, religious backgrounds, all present … in Western Europe,” Grollemond pointed out. But in the centuries since, a narrow, whitewashed vision of the past has frequently been perpetuated in popular fiction and fantasy versions of the Middle Ages."
so it was about white racism, huh? that's a new one...
- arcbyte 4y agoMy exposure to contemporary academic historical studies has been a nightmare. It is woke city - which is just to say that if your work as a grad student doesn't touch on race or gender identity then you have no chance of a career. So it makes sense that for us living in this period of time, all of our "professional" history is going to have that "woke" perspective.
- drewcoo 4y agoIn the context of history . . . white as a race is a new one.