Robert J. Cottrol
04/02/2013
I have ordered this book. Everything is conspiring to help me with my project. Axé.
Month: February 2013
On helicopter people
04/02/2013
Did Dr. Phil send a memo saying men have to call women every day? I do not mean the obsessive calling of controlling types. In old Latin America you had to be home to be visited briefly each evening, and current phone customs remind me of this. My phone is lost, though, and I tend … More On helicopter people
Death watch Louisiana
04/02/2013
Our petition still needs signatures. I do not favor life without parole but it is the best we can do now. Please sign as this is a serious date. Please also consider writing a paper letter, sending a fax or making a telephone call. February 13, the execution date, is Ash Wednesday and it is easy to … More Death watch Louisiana
El correo del carnaval
04/02/2013
Atención, pueblo tababé, que con las tripas vacías he traído en jasayé las ordenanzas de este día. Yo, que con tanto empeño, he querido con razón a este pueblo cruceño alegrarle el corazón (…) –Recopilado por Nino Gandarilla Guardia; fragmento del libro inédito 450 años de la Fundación y del Carnaval Cruceño, Sta. Cruz de la Sierra, … More El correo del carnaval
Fontainebleau
04/02/2013
There are so many things I must visit here, sugar mills and Creole plantations. I understand why I have not visited more but this was an error. The crumbling brick ruins of a sugar mill built in 1829 by Bernard de Marigny de Mandeville, founder of the nearby town of Mandeville, suggest an interesting history … More Fontainebleau
Herman Melville
04/02/2013
The coaches of the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers just would be brothers because these teams are in the 19th century and they must therefore have an incest narrative. Speaking as a person from Louisiana where we have bands, I can say that the Raven Band is useless. The best thing about them is … More Herman Melville
Work tracking weekend
04/02/2013
Sunday: six hours, about three each on research and teaching Saturday: five hours, about three on research and two on service and housekeeping Friday (day off): one hour, research Thursday: nine hours, eight on teaching and consulting, one on research Wednesday: six hours, five on service and housekeeping and one on research Tuesday: eight hours, … More Work tracking weekend
Another course in cultural studies: representations of Mexico and Mexicanness
03/02/2013
This course is needed since Mexico has such a distorted and poor image, but apart from that there is so much material. We could look at Mexican and foreign theories. We could examine calaveras and decipher the china poblana. We could read Monsiváis and much more. This would also be a good course for study abroad. I could teach … More Another course in cultural studies: representations of Mexico and Mexicanness
On due diligence
03/02/2013
I also sent that student this poster, as an example of a current Hispanic World academic activity around women and gender. Yes, it is only a beginning junior level course but now is the time, and this person wants to teach. More broadly, if people do not find out how to work now they will … More On due diligence
Punch
03/02/2013
Is the Brazilian racial situation anomalous, exceptional, unique? I say no and I would also suggest that at least some of the insistence on the mutability of race and the multiplicity of the ways in which racial meaning is and is not created, is a hedging device intended to screen racist practices from view. I … More Punch
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