Fellowships

I am looking for fellowships for certain classes of students, in particularly non-US graduate students at US institutions. One for fieldwork in a third country (i.e. fieldwork they couldn’t just do while home on school breaks, let’s say they’re from Japan and are doing a U.S. PhD in Latin American Studies). One for work in … More Fellowships

Further sacrilege

I would love to say to tourists: Aspects of the Cajun adoration to which I object include the fleur-de-lys and the nostalgia for empire, along with the desire to parlay that into becoming kings in a new, corporate empire. If you want credit for being a poor peasant and you’ve decided to become a king’s … More Further sacrilege

Farewell to these books

They’re either dogeared, or I’m not going to read them, and if I can stand to get rid of them, they must go. Ghattas, Black waveHemingway, For whom the bell tollsLunn, Marxism & ModernismMudimbe, The surreptitious speechTatum, Assimilation blues—, Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? Axé.

It was

All the effort we put in to tolerate where we were, to make life tolerable where we were, and to create a space where work could be done. It wasn’t possible to just ignore circumstances and do work, because we had to build a workspace. Axé.