Sydnee Wagner tells us about Roma history and how the concept of race was created
Sydnee Wagner describes the experience of researching Roma history in early modern English archives, and explores how the concepts of whiteness and race were created.
For more on these ideas, see:
- Alicia Andrzejewski and Sydnee Wagner "Bodies mutilated for the nation": reproductive rights and women of color across time' 2019
- Kim Hall Thing of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England 1995
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Ambereen Dadabhoy
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Contains great resources and reading suggestions - Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker Women, 'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period 2013
- Margo Hendricks Talk: Coloring the Past, Rewriting Our Future: RaceB4Race 2019