Our petition still needs signatures. I do not favor life without parole but it is the best we can do now. Please sign as this is a serious date. Please also consider writing a paper letter, sending a fax or making a telephone call. February 13, the execution date, is Ash Wednesday and it is easy to … More Death watch Louisiana
Atención, pueblo tababé, que con las tripas vacías he traído en jasayé las ordenanzas de este día. Yo, que con tanto empeño, he querido con razón a este pueblo cruceño alegrarle el corazón (…) –Recopilado por Nino Gandarilla Guardia; fragmento del libro inédito 450 años de la Fundación y del Carnaval Cruceño, Sta. Cruz de la Sierra, … More El correo del carnaval
There are so many things I must visit here, sugar mills and Creole plantations. I understand why I have not visited more but this was an error. The crumbling brick ruins of a sugar mill built in 1829 by Bernard de Marigny de Mandeville, founder of the nearby town of Mandeville, suggest an interesting history … More Fontainebleau
The coaches of the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers just would be brothers because these teams are in the 19th century and they must therefore have an incest narrative. Speaking as a person from Louisiana where we have bands, I can say that the Raven Band is useless. The best thing about them is … More Herman Melville
Sunday: six hours, about three each on research and teaching Saturday: five hours, about three on research and two on service and housekeeping Friday (day off): one hour, research Thursday: nine hours, eight on teaching and consulting, one on research Wednesday: six hours, five on service and housekeeping and one on research Tuesday: eight hours, … More Work tracking weekend
This course is needed since Mexico has such a distorted and poor image, but apart from that there is so much material. We could look at Mexican and foreign theories. We could examine calaveras and decipher the china poblana. We could read Monsiváis and much more. This would also be a good course for study abroad. I could teach … More Another course in cultural studies: representations of Mexico and Mexicanness
I also sent that student this poster, as an example of a current Hispanic World academic activity around women and gender. Yes, it is only a beginning junior level course but now is the time, and this person wants to teach. More broadly, if people do not find out how to work now they will … More On due diligence
Is the Brazilian racial situation anomalous, exceptional, unique? I say no and I would also suggest that at least some of the insistence on the mutability of race and the multiplicity of the ways in which racial meaning is and is not created, is a hedging device intended to screen racist practices from view. I … More Punch
These are new things I have invented to eat, and which I can make in less time than it would take to write out: →grilled salmon salad with soy and balsamic vinegar →calf’s liver in tomato pesto I am a genius but I have never learned to cook beans, which is what I want. Mine … More La cuisine
If one of the universities we have in common were a sugar plantation rather than a beach resort, she and I would be cousins; now the family resemblance is starting to show. Enough so that I am startled. Historian Carmen Iglesias has shown that as early as the fifteenth century Spain was already considered by … More Elena Delgado
