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
Axé.
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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
… those hope-snuffing purgatories of endless disinformative “therapy” groups … how you were allowed to frame your reality … some sham “disease,” #OccupyHE #Occupy the Democratic Party … if you have the stomach for it Axé.
I could hardly disagree more with the egocentric views which appear to reign. Axé.
As I keep discovering, I am pedagogically more radical than most. If I taught a MOOC, I would take the “guide on the side” seriously by not videotaping myself at all, only posting letters, as in a blog post. Videotapes I would post would be of others, and they could be archival videotapes of academic … More MOOC
1) We introduced two motions into faculty senate: the first motion establishing a committee to rethink the Senate so that it could exercise a stronger voice in shared governance with administration; the second motion to shift our percentage of tenure-line to off-tenure-line instruction to 70/30 in 5 years. The first motion passed; the second was … More An activism recipe
