Sobre el verbo aprender

The neoliberal world and the corporate university have made an annoying appropriation of the verb “to learn.” To listen to advertising and infomercials is to “learn” or “learn more.” Training sessions on the use of Moodle and WebCT, or on the newest university policies, are “learning.” Now, my Coursera MOOC “invites” me to “visit” the … More Sobre el verbo aprender

Let us see if this is less boring: 162 words

The cultural identities consolidated by writers like José Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz, Nicolás Guillén, Gilberto Freyre, and Oswald de Andrade, and naturalized as national discourses from the 1920s forward, are derived from earlier formulations. But their cultural emphasis is new, as are their proclamations that the mestizo is superior rather than degraded. The mestizo nation of … More Let us see if this is less boring: 162 words

I do not like this paragraph after all, and must improve the prose

It is in the twentieth century that this racialized discourse becomes cultural, and mestizaje becomes a trope for the nation. The cultural identities consolidated by writers like José Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz, Nicolás Guillén, Gilberto Freyre, and Oswald de Andrade, and naturalized as national discourses from the 1920s through the 1960s and beyond, are derived from … More I do not like this paragraph after all, and must improve the prose