Ivory and Whiteness

Abstract

Where Whitaker sees progress in the field from 2001 to 2015, Dorothy Kim argues instead for a split between two "genealogies" in work on race in the Middle Ages and in medieval studies, one a genealogy of historians in particular who deny the relevance of race for the medieval past and whose work is represented in the 2001 special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , and the other a genealogy in literature and other fields that has engaged with critical race studies in order to examine the role of race in the medieval and in medieval studies.