One The most interesting e-mail I received today said: “Dear Professor Zero, Thank you so much for sharing your manuscript. I have read exhaustively on this subject and yours is one of the very most useful pieces. It is so surprising you have not yet been able to place it.” On this issue see paragraph … More Further Advice to New Faculty
I am on sabbatical and could easily do as I see fit, namely work in the morning and evening, play in the afternoon, and sleep at night. In reality I work in the afternoon and night, play in the evening, and sleep in the morning. Notice how I choose to work at the hours of … More On Self Injury
I think I finally see what it is to be a professor. It means you have a project that is yours. You see where it extends and begins to take shape through mist. It is all outside you but it flows to and from you. I always said this was the project I must undertake … More The Contours
My featured post of the past for today is actually from March 13, 2006. Of interest in the post are the comments on authorship, anonymity, and voice. I feature it as part of my attempt to move all of my original blog to a more solid archive, and also in lieu of writing a new … More Ides of March
Please note and comment – and if you can, help improve the translation. This appears to be a foundational text in the construction of whiteness. Vi, debe de haber tres días, en las gradas de San Pedro, una tenebrosa boda, porque era toda de negros. About three days ago on the steps of Saint Peter’s … More Quevedo: Boda de Negros
On Eggplant If you are roasting it whole to make baba ganoush, you should prick it with a fork first so it does not explode in the oven. Otherwise, no matter what you will ultimately do with your eggplant, you should first cut it open or slice it. Now salt it, put it on paper … More Notes from Z’s Kitchen
Some time ago I taught the novel I am studying now. Its characters are classified by color according to a complex system of differentiation, and of concern to many is whiteness: attaining it, increasing it, limiting it, maintaining it. A student came to ask me about the classification system, which she had not entirely grasped. … More Global Whiteness
Writing is fun and publishing is easy. I know it is heresy to say that, so I will repeat it throughout this post. I am really tired of hearing how much I should be suffering and how hard it should all be. I have just never had a hard time writing or publishing, even though … More A Heretical Post
I have had strong reactions recently to various posts on how to be an academic, and to one on leaving the “fast track” and finding fulfillment. I reacted to the latter post because it reflected the trajectory Reeducation thought appropriate for me, when my own nature is research oriented even though I was told throughout … More Reverberating Whitemen
I Most of my nice clothes now are not very conservative. I need blazers and suits, which are terribly expensive if you buy the only kind that really do the job. I also need some more casual conservative options. For my most recent talk I was wearing a straight black skirt, black heels and off … More Fashion Zero
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