En medio de esta decadencia aparente del carácter nacional, se descubren de cuando en cuando ciertas señales de antiguo espíritu; ni puede ser de otro modo: querer que una nación se quede con solas sus propias virtudes y se despoje de sus defectos propios para adquirir en su lugar las virtudes de las extrañas, es … More Carta de Ben-Beley a Nuño
Here is some of something I said on e-mail today: I am trying to understand how two circuits of signification, despite disarticulation at some levels, connect (and connect they do): (a) different definitions of race and the racial, different formations of racial meaning in different places, and (b) race and the world system, where things … More El público
For the rain there is nothing like huaynos. If I were to be in Mexico City this summer, which I now apparently am not, I would go Sunday mornings to the market in Santa María la Ribera. I would have herbs and shrimp and wine and blast charango music through the courtyard while cooking, impressing … More La magia del vinyl
It is in the United States more than in Brazil that liberalism, or slavery, is a “misplaced idea.” Here the official national ideology was much more strongly liberal, and slavery was harder to buy one’s way out of. That is why the United States had to develop a much more hard-line form of racism in … More Cottrol
I am moving this post up to work on the things in it. (The Espejo enterrado uses the Castro paradigm. One knows this but does not always remember it, so I have made this note.) I am rereading David Theo Goldberg’s 2002 book and it is my claim that with this tome, Balibar’s, Winant’s, and da … More David Theo Goldberg, and Lyx
Invisibility suggests a hidden dimension, sometimes unknowing or inadvertent but more than likely planned, or at least ordered, structurally arranged, deeply embedded. So, institutionally, it is not that race has been made ‘absent’ but that its presence has been rendered invisible and silenced (save to the sensitive eye and ear), purged of explicit terms of … More The sensitive eye and ear
I am always fatigued after teaching more than two classes in a day. Today I cleaned house in the morning, went to the office in the afternoon, and socialized at the art studio in the evening. Now I have been investigating the theories of Américo Castro and David Theo Goldberg, so my hour tally comes … More Work tracking Wednesday
Another book I have never read is the History of Sexuality — I was bored with Foucault when it came out and could not take him seriously, and I have never gotten back to it. I should probably read it now along with everything else there is about the body, because race is about bodies, … More Corpus delicti
I have ordered this book. Everything is conspiring to help me with my project. Axé.
This novel is about the problems of white society defining itself; there are all these Afro-Cuban characters with interesting stories but the issues on which the novel centers itself are managing these people and defining whiteness, distinguishing degrees of whiteness (see J. C. Sánchez, apud Monteleone). The OJO CONOCEDOR is the OJO NACIONAL because only … More Cecilia Valdés
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