Our deeper past: Race, settler colonialism, and medieval heritage politics

This article argues that recent discussions about race, white supremacy, and the Middle Ages overlook the relationship between Islamaphobia, settler colonialism, and Indigeneity as a category. Through examining how white settler colonial ideology relies upon notions of "medieval" heritage through the conspiracy theory of "white genocide," this essay explores how the concept of "Anglo-Saxon" signifies colonial whiteness as an ethno-racial category.