And Latin American elites make moves around their constitutive others similar to what the Russians do. So the term colonial discourse remains relevant, it seems. Snyder keeps talking about empire, colonialism and representations of nation. The fact that Russia and postcolonial Latin American elite discourse use so many of the same “rhetorical patterns” (as Jennie … More More notes following Snyder
Essentially, you create a hierarchized racial division that puts you at an advantage, deny that it exists, but call yourself a victim of it. Part of it is what those students said, “to be a legitimate white Latin Americans you must pass yourself through Blackness.” Oswald joked that Brazilians were cannibalizing Western Civilization but it’s … More Evoke-and-elide, that colonialist move
Vallejo was writing about these, I see what they are now. I have Badiou’s The Theory of the Subject and need to find it. Axé.
Reviewing, to see how much of this I should bring up in my departmental context now. This is a good text but I don’t know how key for the current chair. Still, it’s good as an conversation opener and reminder for this chair and dean, to whom I have already delivered more recent writings in … More What Carlos Alonso said in 2007
I tend to think it’s because I’m actually not interested, but it’s a trauma reaction. Axé.
I can’t pretend to actually read every article or manuscript I recycle without knowing where it is online, but this was a talk Rosanna Reguillo gave at Pittsburgh in 2000 and it is about violence, and maps urban interactions. Axé.
It could be on Hispanisms and Latin Americanisms, how has the discipline been constructed? Axé.
Sé que es Mictlantecuhtli quien me arrastra, sé que es él quien me arresta y, con la toga puesta, él mismo ahora me levanta el acta. Una cárcel compacta, el Reclusorio Orientese muestra de repente como el círculo interno de otra cárcel mayor: El barrio es el infierno. Pero peor. Laberinto de feria, el oriente … More Mictlantecuhtli
Transmodernity, perhaps, for the languishing Ferreira da Silva piece. Axé.
On public history and the creation of the memory of the Cajuns. I don’t want to buy another book this week but I want to read this – and support the author. Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 