Part two of “Sounds About White.” So there isn’t much to say about this other than this is where I met the editors on “most” of their edits and explained why I wanted a particular part in. The editors have attempted to paint this as that I didn’t accept “many…

Review of Matthew Gabriele & David M. Perry’s “The Bright Ages” (Harper Collins, 2021) — An intro note for readers. Before even submitting this review, I went through drafts as one does and had much more to say but decided not to go too hard. My intent was to make this review as balanced as possible from a scholarly point of view. I shared it…

“[The police] are a very real menace to every black cat alive in this country. And no matter how many people say, ‘You’re being paranoid when you talk about police brutality’ — I know what I’m talking about . . . It could happen to my mother in the morning…

“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.” — Angela Davis This is the final part of the three-part series on the term “Anglo-Saxon.” Here you will find your starter pack on the term “Anglo-Saxon”. The bulk of this work is primarily from when the discussion…

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin This is a continuation of the three-part series on the term “Anglo-Saxon.” To view part one which provides a synopsis of the problematic term “Anglo-Saxon” go here. To view part…

“We have to work with what bites into our existence.” — Stuart Hall Welcome to your three-part series and list of resources on a very special topic close to my heart: the term “Anglo-Saxon.” This is meant…

*This list was compiled by Dr. Erik Wade & Dr. MRO. The authors in the first list are organized chronologically to emphasize that the field of Early Medieval Studies has benefited from and built on the work of race scholars in Early Modern Studies, particularly Black women, for decades. These…

(A condensed version of this essay is also available at the Historianspeaks.org blog here) In trying to understand our present day and the world that will come out of COVID-19, many people are drawing parallels between this current pandemic and the Black Death (also known as the Bubonic Plague) that…

Medievalists have been interrogating the history of the field, how it is structured, and, in recent years, querying the field’s survival in academia. Like most other disciplines, medieval studies is infected with racism, sexism, bigotry, and exclusion which corrupts the field and hinders scholars and scholarly output. I have written…