The Kings Monologue | The Modern Invention of Race - A Conversation with Cord Whitaker @kingmono | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 17 hours ago.
Dr. Cord J. Whitaker is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Wellesley, where he specializes in the literature of the Middle Ages and the histories of race and racism. The author of Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking and a host of articles on race and the Middle Ages as well as the editor of important volumes on the topic, Whitaker has led significant initiatives in diversity and inclusion within medieval studies and beyond. He is currently a member of the editorial boards for PMLA, the flagship journal for literary and language studies; Exemplaria, a journal of theory in medieval and early modern studies; and Speculum, the most revered interdisciplinary journal in medieval studies. He also leads an international team of editors in the development of a new themed issue on race for Speculum. Whitaker currently chairs the Presidential Commission on Race, Ethnicity, and Equity at Wellesley and regularly helps clients large and small develop and implement antiracist organizational strategies as a Senior Antiracism Consultant at Sagely LLC.
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Dr. Cord J. Whitaker is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Wellesley, where he specializes in the literature of the Middle Ages and the histories of race and racism. The author of Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking and a host of articles on race and the Middle Ages as well as the editor of important volumes on the topic, Whitaker has led significant initiatives in diversity and inclusion within medieval studies and beyond. He is currently a member of the editorial boards for PMLA, the flagship journal for literary and language studies; Exemplaria, a journal of theory in medieval and early modern studies; and Speculum, the most revered interdisciplinary journal in medieval studies. He also leads an international team of editors in the development of a new themed issue on race for Speculum. Whitaker currently chairs the Presidential Commission on Race, Ethnicity, and Equity at Wellesley and regularly helps clients large and small develop and implement antiracist organizational strategies as a Senior Antiracism Consultant at Sagely LLC.
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