These notes are or could be key for this paper but I do not have time to fully understand them, since I must finish it now. Mignolo 66: La idea de “América fue parte del “occidentalismo” y, más tarde, la idea de “América Latina” se volvió problemática cuando América del sur y el Caribe fueron … More A contradiction, because of time; I am rushed indeed
♦ You may add further authors associated with the literary “boom” of the 1960s, but you may not allege that all the writers of this group, or all Latin American writers, are “magical realists.” ♦ If you choose to include José Vasconcelos, you must also add Fernando Ortiz and Gilberto Freyre. You may not cite … More Rules for the M.A. examination, and for the area examination for the Ph.D., that I have actually had instituted in writing
. . . a broadly anti-intellectual professionalizing atmosphere that is inimical to the long, slow life of sustained thinking and unwilling to support it, with, I think, terrible consequences for the humanities—tellingly, the most productive scholars in my department have won multiple external fellowships that keep them away from campus; an administration that is indifferent … More A good essay
Fíjense en lo que dice Ricardo Palma: “The principal cause of the great defeat is that the majority of Peru is composed of that wretched and degraded race that we once attempted to dignify and ennoble. The Indian lacks patriotic sense; he is born enemy of the white and of the man of the coast. … More Facebook is refusing to post
Afro-Hispanic Review Luso-Brazilian Review Raritan …and there are more, and there are books I would like to buy. Alternatively, the library could have holdings. But I cannot do it all, as we must also pay for travel to conferences. I used to Do It All, Anyway, but that ended in debt. And this is the … More Journals I would like to subscribe to
…it is going to start and we will meet many more students resembling our former students, people who may or may not use their degrees directly in their future jobs but who will: ♦ discover they can work white collar ♦ discover that they enjoy the humanities ♦ learn that if they go down to … More School
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
… 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.
Axé.
