The Future of RaceB4Race Is You
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RaceB4Race is a cross-institutional scholarly community for scholars and students of premodern critical race studies. Bridging many traditional disciplinary divides, RaceB4Race not only creates innovative scholarly dialogues, but also fosters professional development and structural change within the many fields of premodern studies. As a model for what a horizontally organized learned society can do for its community, RaceB4Race looks to Arizona State University's charter, measuring ourselves not by whom we exclude, but by whom we include and how they succeed. RaceB4Race is brought to life by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in partnership with The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Division of Humanities. It is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Hitz Foundation. Learn more and get involved at www.acmrs.asu.edu/raceb4race
Indigeneity: A RaceB4Race Symposium was held at Arizona State University on February 7-8, 2025. The term 'indigeneity' must be considered as capaciously as possible in order to recognize its shifting valences of meaning across historical periods and geographies. The relationship between the Indigenous peoples and their land has always been a fundamental the notion of indigeneity. The term as it is commonly used today is largely in reference to native populations of certain lands who have become minorities in their own countries due to the incursion of settler colonialism. However, if we are to think expansively about indigeneity in our present moment, it is important for us to understand the native or aboriginal populations in the premodern world. This symposium seeks to expand and develop our understanding of indigeneity, from its place in the premodern world to its role in the present.