Evoke-and-elide, that colonialist move

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

Mictlantecuhtli

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

Castro Alves

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