I have written an essay for my MOOC that is half the maximum length and that took no thought or deep reading. This is because I am not taking the MOOC terribly seriously, yet I want to experience it. I am working for a C. Therefore I should not be posting the piece, but I … More Sentences
Unbelievably, I now have an official creative writing student and I am starting to compile a list of readings, in an attempt to begin answering the question, who and what taught me to write my sentences? Essay, chronicle, memoir ♦ Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Facundo ♦ Joan Didion ♦ Mariano José de Larra ♦ Michel de Montaigne, … More Liste de lectures … en progrès … and constantly updating
…it is going to start and we will meet many more students resembling our former students, people who may or may not use their degrees directly in their future jobs but who will: ♦ discover they can work white collar ♦ discover that they enjoy the humanities ♦ learn that if they go down to … More School
Here is something about academic advice that I would rather write about over here, since I am supposed to write an alternative advice book one day. What is one advising on? I seek advice on how to remain myself in atmospheres which actively militate against it. How to remember it is actually good to have an … More Une de mes belles perceptions
My friend from elementary school is starting to hike the John Muir Trail today, and Jonathan Mayhew is in Barcelona, and I envy both locations. Regular presence in locations of interest is the main thing I have renounced and it was not worth it, Rebecca. I did not know in graduate school what the situation … More Hans Scherfig
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It really is true, the United States is arguably the most prudish country, despite the reputation of the gringas. One of my students, not an American of course, just posted this to Facebook and I cannot repost since I am faculty, but consider. Also in Mexico they have this. Meanwhile, San Francisco-based Russians have an … More Even more interesting
Richard Price, ed., Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas (Garden City, New York, 1973), p. 20; C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (rev. ed., New York, 1963), pp. 17, 19: both Toussaint L’Ouverture and Henri Christophe were the sons of African chieftains. Is this why … More Very interesting
The association of race and national identity, and the supposition that race-based inequality in our societies is a superficial rather than a fundamental flaw, are so naturalized by now that it is worth asking again: What is race? What are racialism and racism? What is their relation to the new nation-states? In the United States, … More 161
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