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Transmodernity, perhaps, for the languishing Ferreira da Silva piece. Axé.

I discovered his poem “A Cachoeira de Paulo Affonso,” and it is interesting. I also discovered a book that discusses Castro Alves, about five years old, from WVUP. Amazingly, our library has e-access to this and other works by the author! I have to re-find and re-study all of this. Of course the enslaved woman’s … More Castro Alves

I said what follows to someone but should gather good defenses of the humanities here. “Well, humanities profs don’t always respect their own discipline so they define it in terms of skills only. This is partly the fault of Teaching Goals where you are supposed to be training students to do things. My department now … More Defending the humanities

(Honestly, I should just keep writing things up and stop over-censoring myself. I said that Louisiana participates in both U.S. and Latin American constructions of race and racial meaning.) I said historical work on individual Creole women is important because literary representations are often a-historical. In Latin America the woman of mixed race has been … More What I said to the Creole society decades ago

It was a symposium on the Atlantic world I went to at Rice years ago and I felt so intelligent, the papers were so intelligent. I have very fragmentary notes. Let’s just type them and see if they make sense later. That’s very fragmentary but it’s still suggestive. I think I should make my LAS … More Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations

Every time I go into files I find notes to self about working in my department at UL. I’d be doing research projects and needing access to self to do them and be having trouble with it, and have revelations about how the abuse in my department was eroding me. These are not very legible, … More Addendum to my December moulting