A vignette for Historiann, obliquely related to her post One of the courses I am teaching now, I first taught when I was 21. Then it was a 5-hour course with 25 students, adequate administrative support, and cooperation among those teaching it. I was paid for 20 hours a week to do this, and between … More Some Arithmetic
This is it. Axé.
Hornsby had been in Nicaragua and he spoke of its blue lakes amid blue mountains under a blue sky, and how it was the Transit route and the great passageway, the pier of America, and how it would teem with merchant ships and with foreigners speaking all tongues, waiting for the Canal; and each ship … More With Walker in Nicaragua, continuing further
Dealing with white people can be incredibly draining. One I coincide with regularly is convinced that Black people were happy with the situation they had in the 40s and the 50s. She must know there is something wrong with her argument since she keeps raising the issue again and again. Axé.
Caffeinated enough at last I must move on for the day and do not have time, now, to do justice to this worthy project but I will say: 1- I am from an academic and cultural elite. One of my ancestors, the 19th century immigrant (everyone else had already been here for centuries), had a … More For Historiann and Tony Grafton
So I am still mystified. It seems the main thing people did not learn how to do in graduate school was to write, and that they suffer while writing.What I did not learn in graduate school was how to teach K-12, and I suffer while teaching. There are people who do not suffer while teaching. … More Et encore, encore
…because of the hopelessness in this enterprise as it has been constructed. Axé.
When I was younger than I am now, people were always very concerned I might fail. I did not understand why since I had never failed and did well easily, but I did know I was to be especially careful and follow certain really safe paths. “You can’t, you mustn’t, you shouldn’t,” are still a … More The burdens
To new faculty: The reason I am not out drinking with you and being a “fun” colleague is that I am in a meeting to ensure continued funding for your position. I am not telling you this because there is no reason to raise your stress levels this week. I may point out, though, that … More Secrets
People talk about “protecting time” a lot and about practicing discipline but they do not talk as much, it does not seem to me, about protecting the person who writes and that, I discern, is the far greater problem for me. I spend a lot of time in some sort of dissociated state because of … More Protecting the person who writes
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