Introduction to literature compass special cluster: Critical race and the Middle Ages

This introduction is an antidote to the much earlier issues on medieval race and ethnicity with vastly different stakes and research methodologies. My introduction here centers Margo Hendricks' work and call for a premodern critical race studies that “acknowledges its genealogies” and “celebrates that lineage.” One of the ways to do this is to explain how premodern race studies continues to highlight certain premodern race genealogies over others.