By Mira Assaf Kafantaris, Ambereen Dadabhoy, Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, Jessica Parr, and Kerry Sinanan From the celebratory to the declamatory, there has been a range of responses to Netflix’s much-anticipated Bridgerton series, which was released on December 25, 2020. As academics who research the histories and cultures of race, slavery, empire, and colonialism, we were intrigued to see how a prestige drama set in…