What's Next?
In a perfect world, we would love to continue developing this site as we make progress in our research. Unfortunately though, as we demonstrated through our explanations of medieval racism, we do not live in a perfect world. There are so many aspects and opportunities relating to this subject that we could also analyze, and hopefully we will get to one day. For instance, a topic about race and the Silk Road that we found particularly interesting is how these trends we observed in works of art persisted in years after the world had moved on from the Middle Ages and the Silk Road, but this is of course still hypothetical. At this point, we have created a model for what students in Professor Diaz's Humanities class will accomplish next May, and we still plan to design an interactive activity they will complete as part of their class, so please do feel free to continue checking the site once we do eventually make updates.
There will always be more research to be done about this area of study, so for now we will just say thank you for taking the time to peruse the project we put so much hard work into, and leave you with a quote from Geraldine Heng's book The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages that perfectly sums up what we aimed to accomplish in putting this platform together:
"In addressing the nested discourses formative of race, it is important to note that religion - the paramount source of authority in the Middle Ages - can function both socioculturally and biopolitically: subjecting peoples of a detested faith, for instance, to a political theology that can biologize, define, and essentialize an entire community as fundamentally and absolutely different in an interknotted cluster of ways" (Heng 27).
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