Now we are on a trip to Berkeley in 1906. (My grandmother graduated from what was then the University of California in 1912.) “The camera looks north near Berkeley Way along Oxford … the streetcar can turn right up Hearst Avenue. Note the small orchard seen as the streetcar turns into Euclid Avenue … the … More Berkeley, 1906
March 19 is St. Joseph’s day, my favorite holiday after Hallowe’en. This is an esoteric taste but it is the spring equinox and here the Mardi Gras Indians have important parades on this day. There are extravagant altars all over New Orleans and you must visit them, and eat the food that is on them. … More St. Joseph the Worker
If such a faith lasted longer in Spain than it did in the rest of Western Europe, this is partly because Franco’s triumph allowed Falangist historians to continue celebrating the achievements of the “raza hispanica” for many years. But it should be added that the “faith…in biological continuity”of Spanish fascists had its own distinctive flavor. … More Américo Castro was against the idea of a Hispanic “race,” but…
Cecilia Valdés in New Orleans This paper considers some New Orleans sources, parallels and intertexts of Cirilo Villaverde’s Cecilia Valdés o la loma del Ángel: novela de costumbres cubanas (Havana, 1839-New York, 1882) and the fact that Cuba’s national novel was written over thirty years’ residence in the United States. Like José Martí, Benito Juárez, … More An unplanned child
Lomax’s description occurs in his documentary, Cajun Country, where his specific goal is to discuss the concept of “Cajun” not as a group of people so much as a cultural dynamic capable of absorbing and reworking a variety of influences, albeit most of them deriving from traditional folkways found in southern France. That goal is … More Alan Lomax, vendor of mestizaje…
Here is a discussion of him. It is interesting and he may not have been entirely wrong about the nature of Louisiana. Axé.
If race is constitutive of the modern state, as Goldberg demonstrates (2002), or of modernity itself, as da Silva argues (2007), the liberal assumption that inequality can be addressed within the framework of the nation does not hold. How might this perception change our understanding of these and other texts that have been read as … More My egalitarian bias keeps me from seeing this.
→I do not like my paper title and it wants to be in Spanish, anyway. I could do another paper, too, on Latinness and the idea of the Hispanic; somehow this could fit into my book; I actually gave a paper like that years ago and did not get back to it; it is one … More El lado oscuro del mestizaje: raza, estado, latinidad
1) What do you think of going to a conference that would put you out of class for an entire week? The conference is W-F and I would have to travel on the Tuesday, which means missing four weekdays. On the one hand, it is research. On the other, that is a week of class. … More Planning
Actually it is a downright Gadamerian problem. A second look at this 19th century corpus may not support the romanticized readings it elicited after mestizaje was embraced as national ideology decades after its first publication. It is Gadamerian because the problem is what the readers bring; their assumptions, predilections, blind spots. Axé.
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