2026/03/01 by Nasser Mufti
Arts and Humanities · Business, Management and Accounting · Social Sciences · #American History and Culture #Cultural History and Identity Formation #Decadence, Literature, and Society
paper · doi:10.1632/s0030812926101783
openalex publication_date 2026/03/01 · openalex created_date 2026/07/30 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
For a long time, the story goes, we scholars supported a Victorian racial regime, and we continue to be dominated by it even today. Disciplines were an injunction to silence discussions about race, an affirmation of its nonexistence, and, by implication, an admission that there was nothing to say about such things, nothing to see, and nothing to know. Such was the hypocrisy of our field with its halting logic.