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
Now we have two novels in my chapter or essay which are explicitly about building the white nation, to the extent that they are about building one. That means it is time for more, or time to work on theoretical framework and structure. (I have always been outraged when people call cultural appropriation and ethnic … More Still more of that article
In this novel and the society it portrays, the maintenance of racially segregated families (the planter with an official and an unofficial family) leads to incest, which destabilizes the patriarchy because it collapses the control the planter maintains and also supports and extends by having multiple, separate families. This threatens to destroy (and not support) … More The last three paragraphs of that article
Here is a good thought-piece, Fields Have Narratives, and Words Without Borders is one of the places I think I should publish fiction. Today instead I discovered the current location of a good scholar of the Spanish Enlightenment, and I joined the SCMLA for three years. I am going to submit to its conference in … More Sol y sombra II
Friday is my day off. I woke up with aching muscles, not of the kind one gets from exercise but the kind one gets from not having enough exercise or sleep. With a bad mattress or anything else bad going on I would have felt like knives were cutting into me. Espresso is a good … More Un jour de congé
“La representación literaria del incesto se liga íntimamente con la realidad histórica del mestizaje en Cuba. En una sociedad esclavista colonial la estratificación racial aseguraba la sobrevivencia de una minoría a base de categorías raciales exclusivas. En algún momento había que reprimir el concubinato racial para restaurar el patriarcado. La mera existencia de una clase … More Research question du jour
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