Hendricks, Margo. "Coloring the Past, Rewriting Our Future: RaceB4Race." Throughlines. www.throughlines.org/suite-content/what-is-premodern-critical-race-studies. [Date accessed].

What is premodern critical race studies?

Margo Hendricks defines the "critical" in premodern critical race studies.

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Margo Hendricks
University of California, Santa Cruz (emerita)

In 2019 at Race and Periodization: A RaceB4Race Symposium, Margo Hendricks offered her insights on what exactly premodern critical race studies is (especially in comparison to premodern race studies), and what it means to be a practitioner within this field. Her working definition is a guide to the methodological and theoretical background of PCRS, as well as a rallying call to continue to expand understandings of the past.

Read the complete transcript and listen to her talk, archived by the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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