Throughlines

A dynamic pedagogical resource for engaging premodern critical race studies in the classroom.
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Throughlines offers a variety of freely accessible teaching materials to help you incorporate premodern critical race studies into your teaching. Specifically designed for use in higher education, the materials on Throughlines include lectures, pedagogical approaches, exemplar syllabi, classroom discussion models, an annotated bibliography and more.

Throughlines will continue to grow over time. So be sure to check back regularly or join our mailing list to stay in the loop on content related to your research and teaching.

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Our scholars

Throughlines materials are developed by cutting-edge scholars in the fields of premodern studies, in collaboration with the Throughlines team.

Contributors include Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Kim F. Hall, Cord J. Whitaker, Chouki El Hamel, Leslie Alexander, Margo Hendricks, and more.

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Margo Hendricks

What is premodern critical race studies?

Margo Hendricks offers her insights into 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.

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Tarren Andrews

Early medieval settler colonialism

The logics of settler colonialism emerged long before the colonial era. Studying these designs through law codes, chronicles, and religious texts, reveals how colonialism is an ongoing structure shaping both past and present.

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Patricia Akhimie

Editorial influence in Othello

How have editors shaped the way Shakespeare is read? Teaching students how to detect editorial choices across different editions of Shakespeare’s Othello offers a way into understanding how the canon is created.

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