Cord Whitaker, Friends of
the
Institute for Advanced Study Member in the School of
Historical Studies at
the Institute for Advanced Study, is
researching nineteenth- and
twentieth-century African
American...
On November 1, 2019, Cord
Whitaker, Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member in
the School of Historical Studies, gave the talk "Black Metaphors:
How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking—and Why
It Matters."
In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black
person’s skin white—or at least that is what happens
when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the late
thirteenth- or early fourteenth-century English romance the King of
Tars...
In 2019–20, Cord
J. Whitaker, Member in the School of Historical
Studies and Associate Professor at Wellesley College, is interested
in the history and development of race and racism in medieval
English literature.
