Racist colonialists needed African civilizations not to have been built by Africans to justify their plunder of the continent. Interview with Professor Chap Kusimba. Part XVI of our continuing series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages.
Paul B. Sturtevant
During the Middle Ages, Africa wasn't in a "dark age"; it was linked to an emerging global world. Special interview with African Anthropologist Chapurukha Kusimba, part I. Part XIV of our ongoing series on race, Racism and the Middle Ages.
The greatest map possibly ever created was made by an Arab Muslim refugee working for a French-Norse king of Sicily on a giant silver disc in the twelfth century. It is one of the mulicultural wonders of the world.
Were medieval people racist? You might think the answer is a simple "yes!", but it's far more complicated than that. Part VI in our series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages.
Spoiler Alert: no. Everything you've been taught about "race" is is completely made up. Here's how we know...
Introducing a new Public Medievalist series: taking on the white-supremacist ideas of the medieval past, and exploring the stories of people of color in the Middle Ages.
At the National Prayer Breakfast this morning, President Trump promoted his typically dark vision of Middle Eastern politics: We have seen peace loving Muslims brutalize, victimize, murdered and oppressed by ISIS killers. We have seen
Donald Trump's rise has revealed an ugly truth: that, for some, prejudice is an addictive source of pleasure. Can a medieval idea help us fight back?
The military flail may have, in fact, existed. But not at all in the places that we think they did...