The Black Middle Ages: Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)

The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives more broadly in the medieval period, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book engages disparate discourses to reassess African-American positionalities in time and space. Utilizing a transhistorical framework, Vernon reflects on medieval studies as a discipline built upon a contended set of ideologies and acts of imaginative appropriation visible within source texts and their later mobilizations. 

• The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
• Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking (The Middle Ages Series)
• Whose Middle Ages?: Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies)
• Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages
• The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages
• The Origins of Racism in the West
• Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)
• Telling Tales