Also cut

I thought I needed this–it is a more concise version of something from the other manuscript–but I cut it. Maybe I can use it, or use it to shorten the other manuscript. The ten chapters of Toward a Global Idea of Race are framed by three shorter pieces that throw into relief the racial dimension … More Also cut

LACES and More

I was going to publish something in LACES, and I forgot. Perhaps I will. And there are other things to remember. I had a guest speaker in my Spanish 202. And my colleague said that the reason we should leave the university is that teaching is obstructed and there is no administrative support (I would … More LACES and More

Colonial Desire

I have a photocopy of this book and it has always been something I should seriously read. It still is, even though it is old now. I forget that I have it because it is a photocopy. I’m going to get rid of the photocopy and probably buy the book, even though I do not … More Colonial Desire

Sentences for the next paper on Ferreira da Silva

Sentences I did not use in text #2 That racialization does not only use a logic of exclusion, but one of obliteration is one of Homo Modernus’ central insights. Why characters of color are elaborated and then disappeared in the novela das oito of the 1980s was a motivating question for Ferreira da Silva early … More Sentences for the next paper on Ferreira da Silva

El reino de este mundo

See Ferreira da Silva 179-80 on Prospero and Caliban. Does this apply to the Reino de este mundo? To magical realism? That of course will have to be contrasted to what Coronil says about REM, which he likes. But still, I think this is very interesting. Axé.