Use of PBS videos as course material. These are not college level. Discussion and study questions are not simply general, they are absurd. The most you can do with them is come to some half-reasonable generalization, when the point of a college level course would be to criticize such generalizations and move beyond them. Readings … More MOOC critique, so far
One of the results of adjunctification is that undergraduates meet few professors, if any, and many are officially advised by academic staff and who have not been faculty. As a result of this they have to pay for coaching on how to get into graduate school and things like that; there are services like The … More On adjunctification, coaches and consultants
…is that I have to use my Haiti paper as well for this book. And of course that fits marvelously with the New Orleans material. The good: everything I have fits. It all made sense, after all. The bad: it is too much material. Axé.
So far this is all I have for the writing group but I am starting with a handicap since I first wrote something else, completely different, and it was almost 6,000 words and it already has a “home.” When before the Congress of Angostura Bolívar proposes to shape nations by mixing the “diverse blood” of … More Et voilà, mesdames et messieurs
Today I have been reading and I must still write for 30 minutes. Things left to read include two recommendations from the Spanish Professor, one from the Prose Doctor, and one or two from me in the same thread. I must also continue to reread the Julio Ramos book. I still have to do final … More Cette semaine
More from Piedra (I love his English, I think it is Cuban and under the influence of Golden Age Spanish, but the marvel of it is, it is ultra-perfect English): To become Hispanic was to acquire “literary whiteness.” The concept of the Hispanic “race” grew in print … but there are Afro-Hispanic writings throughout the … More Rapacious grammar
This might be my favorite article ever. It is classic and should be required reading for everyone. I am going to teach it. Spanish 402/502 — Summer/Fall 2013 Notes on José Piedra, Literary Whiteness and the Afro-Hispanic Difference Article NLH 18:2 (1987): 303-332 Accessed from our library via JSTOR Epigraphs: Unamuno, El lenguaje es la … More Piedra on Nebrija
This is to say that inclusivity does not resolve the problem of racial difference but functions to mask or render unspeakable the mechanisms of exclusion and hierarchization which still persist. The elasticity of the category Hispanic does stand in contrast to the less flexible categories that have operated in the United States or South Africa, … More Tres oraciones en treinta minutos
The concept of raza is thus not a merely a particular system of classification, but a racial order in which culture and cultural identity have an important role and the meaning of color varies. It is nonetheless administered by the state as racial, and despite its flexibility as a category, it remains inflected with questions … More Seis oraciones en treinta minutos
I need a really good image of a great ship putting out to sea and I do not see the right one, so you will have to imagine it. I am embarking on a large solidarity project. As I am about to call for one in print, I have to model it. It involves wresting … More Le projet
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