Aujourd’hui je trouverai: “Martyrs of Miscegenation: Racial and National Identities in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.” Skinner, Lee. Hispanofila Volume: 132 (2001-05-01) p. 25-42. ISSN: 0018-2206.
The IILI is having its conference in México, D.F. in June, 2014 which is ideal for me. That means I need another abstract. This is the place to fire my salvo beyond Doris Sommer, using Latin American work on the 19th century including a lot of Mexican studies and examples. I could also do something with Spain in this paper — i.e. not reenact the Peninsular-Spanish American split. This conference would be a good place for that.
Notice how, now that I do not listen to the desperate howlings of officious and self-aggrandizing full and assistant professors or the guilt-tripping of administrators, instructors and adjuncts, every step I take goes directly and logically to my book.
People with no work ethic, no practical sense, no joy, no skills, and no Zen have preached at me far too long. I have this blog pour les écraser tous. Here is one of the reasons I cannot stand Robert Boice:
My re-analysis, however, casts some doubt on the desirability of forcing writing using punishment. The group that wrote under the threat of punishment wrote the most; their average output, in fact, indicated that they met their goal of three pages per day. But they barely met the goal, apparently writing just enough to avoid punishment, and their writing was only half as efficient as those in other groups, and only half as efficient as their own writing in the baseline condition.
It is possible that writing under the punishment condition became aversive; it would be interesting to see how much writers in such a condition continue to write after the negative consequences are removed. It would also be interesting to see whether the quality of their ideas was similar to those produced by the other groups.
That is a critique of him. Anyone who tells me I need Boice, I will tell needs a KZ.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Skinner was my colleague at Kansas before she left. Her book follows the Sommer paradigm but with more emphasis on race. Fernando Unzueta also has a similar book.
Yes, I have to re-look at them. But I am more interested still in history and social policy and so on.