{"id":59451,"date":"2020-01-31T21:05:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T21:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59451"},"modified":"2020-02-03T20:00:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T20:00:23","slug":"white-supremacy-rhetoric-lectures-bella-da-costa-greenes-symbolic-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59451","title":{"rendered":"White supremacy rhetoric lectures \u2013 Bella da Costa Greene\u2019s symbolic legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

White supremacy rhetoric lectures \u2013 Bella da Costa Greene\u2019s symbolic legacy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University News: UMKC’s Independent Student Newspaper<\/a>
\n2019-02-20<\/p>\n

Chelsea Engstrom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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UMKC\u2019s Medieval and Early Modern Studies program held the first of four lectures last week in a series that aims to help dismantle white supremacist rhetoric while making academia more accessible and diverse.<\/p>\n

Each of the four lectures covers a different topic, but the underlying purpose remains the same. Dr. Sierra Lomuto<\/a>, the first lecture\u2019s speaker, focused on Belle da Costa Greene<\/a> and her symbolic legacy as a medievalist<\/a> and woman of color.<\/p>\n

Lomuto, an English professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota<\/a>, is one of the founding members of the Medievalists of Color (MoC) organization.<\/p>\n

MoC is \u201can international professional organization that advocates for the advancement of racial minority scholars working in Medieval Studies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bella da Costa Greene, born Belle Marion Greener in 1883, spent her life passing as a white woman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Lomuto, Greene\u2019s parents separated when she was around 5 years old, and that was when her mother changed all her children\u2019s surname to Greene in an effort to distance themselves from her estranged husband and the black community as a whole.<\/p>\n

Greene, with her \u201cwhite-sounding\u201d surname and light skin, would explain away her olive-toned complexion by claiming to be of Portuguese descent…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each of the four lectures covers a different topic, but the underlying purpose remains the same. Dr. Sierra Lomuto, the first lecture\u2019s speaker, focused on Belle da Costa Greene and her symbolic legacy as a medievalist and woman of color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8,6462,20,25],"tags":[30700,30704,30698,30697,21889,30699],"class_list":["post-59451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-women","tag-chelsea-engstrom","tag-sierra-lomuto","tag-umkc","tag-university-news-umkcs-independent-student-newspaper","tag-university-of-missouri","tag-university-of-missouri-at-kansas-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59467,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59451\/revisions\/59467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}