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May 29, 2022 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
This is dangerous and I'll tell you why.
I'm pursuing a Ph.D. here in the US and often, when topics about us are raised in academia, the scholarly resources, which form the backbone of every research paper, are written by white people, for white people, about our people. /1
Such papers dominate early modern British literature that birthed the ugliest stereotypes that shaped how white people see and treat us. And we do not always have easy access to such papers. Journals that house them cost a lot of dollars, which discourages engagement with them /2
Nov 25, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
I've been following the theme of sexual deviancy rampant in early modern European narratives that contributed to the racist discourse about West Africa. They said we had no morals, were fucking whomever we wanted, and that our idea of marriage was too transactional.
Sir John Mandeville said that "in Ethiopia and in many other countries [in Africa] the folk lie all naked . . . and the women have no shame of the men.”
