coldhearted scientist وداد

But so good. I have had some wonderful times in academia, actually.

1. The papers of my 1989 or 1990 LASA panel in Miami, on race, with Josaphat Kubayanda, Howard Winant, Peter Wade. The most interesting to me now is Kubayanda’s work on maroon discourse.
2. I guess I am keeping the Kubayanda, I am not sure whether he published it. He says a few things.
3. There are o neutral forms of representation.
4. His reference point is not just Eurocentric or critical of same, but lies in another interpretive community
5. Maroon discourse is a negation of unification and ends the monopoly on meaning
6. It brings in a new epistemological age
7. Difference tears away at notions of purity and other core assumptions
8. Aybar in El reino de Mandinga emphasizes the lack of totality in the Caribbean; again, we’re not just west and anti-west, colonial and anti-colonial
9. MESTIZAJE AND NATIONALISM IN MEXICAN LITERARY HISTORY: the Indian as “ours” and us as “other”
10. SEE Spivak on Calibán
11. Mestizaje and blanqueamiento are totalizing discourses, strategies of containment
12. Altamirano. The liberal discourse of the time was to say that the Aztec people were also oppressed by Aztec kings (before the Spaniards), and to claim to be an incarnation of this pueblo (Neruda does this too, and other theorists that I’ve cited in my Anzaldúa paper, and now Gabilondo, also talk about it)

Actually, I have to keep this Kubayanda manuscript because I don’t think he ever published it, and it’s important.

Axé.