The intellectual and the state: modernismo and transculturation from below.  Beasley-Murray. And there is all this interesting work on the Amazon, and the Peruvian avant-garde, and Zevallos-Aguilar has written so much, and I am spread too thin. (I am going through files, as you can see.) And Steven White’s article on Afro-Brazilian poetry is on … More And more fascinating files

Harvest of Empire, that I must watch  — Stuart Hall, Race, the floating signifier A Georgia sharecropper’s narrative — The Bayou Brief: Petrostate I saw your face … I felt infinite wonder, infinite pity Jazz Lives. This is a whole blog I must link to. Look at their Memories of Club Hangover Afro-Colonial Legislation in … More Fascinating files

I have them both, and keep forgetting passwords and forgetting how to really use them, and I have Evernote, too. I keep using this blog and my other one to take notes, but now I want to use these other sites more. I am going to give a seminar called Global Lorca, or something close … More Zotero and Endnote, and this pesky paper

I have to check out and reread this book. Axé.

It is by Stuart Hall and it is a key text. I find myself caring about structuralism and poststructuralism as never before. But this is a q/d handout for the students. Floating signifier in Oxford Reference: A signifier without a specific signified (see sign). Also known as an ‘empty signifier’, it is a signifier that … More Race, the floating signifier (1996) — the beginning of a handout for class

* Re-find also that Berkeley professor working on history of business, plantation and corporation. Canonical critical race theory sees race as a modern invention, and often says it came in with the Enlightenment (sometimes moving back to the early modern period, but not earlier. This is not accurate. (See 261-62 for a list of major … More The invention of race in the European Middle Ages. A research post

I must clean up this browser. On Charles V, African slavery. Impact of the slave trade on Africa. Bhabha: race, time, modernity. Literary whiteness. New research on 1518 voyages. Popes, the Catholic church, and the 1518 voyages. Slavery in the New Netherlands. The Iberian slave trade. From plantation to corporation. Caitlin Rosenthal. Slave narratives from … More Bookmarks for the current paper