On a book by Joshua Good: Although Francisco Franco courted the Nazis as allies during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s, the Spanish dictator’s racial ideals had little to do with the kind of pure lineage that obsessed the Nazis. Indeed, Franco’s idea of race–that of a National Catholic state as the happy … More Impurity of Blood
He is available online in the Biblioteca Cervantes Virtual, fortunately. I must read this chapter in detail. Axé.
Look at this book by an English traveler concerned to prove the backwardness of Spain. It is extremely interesting. Axé.
One of the things I like about this book is that it says teaching takes time, especially with new courses. It tells new faculty not to fault themselves if all their time is going to teaching. Then it tells you how to take research time back. This is realistic. Before I started quailing to the … More Further appreciation for the Compleat Academic
I like formation theory, but it is apparently criticized from the point of view of systemic racism theory. Denise da Silva is not satisfied with it because, she says, it still treats race as a thing even though the intention is the opposite. Faegin’s work looks good. He is one of my tribe: he says … More Criticism of racial formation theory
My culture course is not as challenging as the version of it being given by the Spanish Professor, but the students are still having a hard time. That is probably because, as was revealed today in a study, a majority of courses at my institution lack sufficient rigor. My course imitates a course given at … More Have you seen this book?
I had not thought of him for some time but he would be a very interesting person to revisit, for historical reasons. Also, I must come back to that Andermann book: he discusses foundational violence that is simultaneously denied and evoked. I am constantly amazed and gratified to find that while I was absent, other … More Mariano Picón Salas
In graduate school there was a parodist who wrote a play called El ¿huh? de las niñas y el ¡ja! de Boy-oh-Boy and a tract called La rebelión de las personas non gratas. The personas non gratas were, as we knew from other parodies, the students. I cannot remember the Unamuno parody but there has … More F. L. de Moratín
Here, that is to say far below, is the abstract for one of the papers I gave when I was supposed to be working on Vallejo. I did not actually write it, but spoke from this abstract itself and a two-page handout of quotations. I could do this because I have excellent presentation skills. I … More An archaeological post
I am happy again. It is possible to be eficaz. Now I will start boiling LUND down. I want to point out that Freyre appears to have derived his theories of Brazilian exceptionalism from Unamuno and Ortega y Gasset. Also, it seems that following Guimarães’ categories, I believe in “historical races.” Key phrases from Lund, … More Lund boildown for my purposes
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