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Impressive. It at once summarizes the state of medieval race studies and examines the field's indebtedness to its nineteenth-century roots. Perhaps its most exciting contribution is that it posits the Middle Ages as a canvas upon which twentieth- and twenty-first century media paints in order to explore, in something like a safe space, our era's concerns with phenotypic, religious, and cultural racialization.
--College Literature

Yields rich insights into the role played by notions of the medieval in constructions of racial and national identities from the nineteenth century to the present day.
--Renaissance Quarterly Review

A valiant effort of the scholarship in the current academic environment.
--Comitatus

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