I have to figure out how to do these on the Macintosh, but: Â ALT 0194 Latin capital letter A with circumflex â ALT 131 or ALT 0226 Latin small letter a with circumflex Ç ALT 128 or ALT 0199 Latin capital letter C with cedilla ç ALT 135 or ALT 0231 Latin small letter … More Turkish letters in Unicode

I may have failed it due to diffident and careless work. I am just like the students, doing things resentfully. I was reminded of Bloom’s taxonomy, which has its uses. I already knew, and had views on the discourse of student learning objectives. I knew course materials and activities should be coordinated to these, and … More What I learned in that online course

“I am delighted by my online class this semester and I made nary a powerpoint or video for it. I did record it if you missed class and wanted to revisit something. The only platforms were Google documents, Zoom, and Blackboard, and BB mostly for archiving course materials and discussion boards.” Tudo bem. Axé.

I am almost finished with this paper and there are two magazine articles which have served as inspiration. One is on Saidiya Hartman. In print it is called “Secret Histories;” it is by one Alexis Okeowo and it is in the October 26, 2020 New Yorker, pp. 44-51. Scenes of subjection is Foucauldian — interested … More For the prison paper

There is Gurumbé and more: Jordi Savall’s Routes of Slavery, for instance, which you can buy. There’s Slavery and the black presence in Spanish Golden Age literature. There’s Staging “habla de negros.” Axé.

THAT TEXT, find it, it will have to do with Lorca. Axé.

In the major conflicts of the past thirty years, most tenured faculty have been  absent. A fairly small group works on important institutional issues they know well– police abolition, admissions equity, faculty diversification, grad student unionization, among others.  Meanwhile, the majority of tenure-track faculty are completely silent on budgeting, administrative accountability, pseud-integration, and other major … More Why are faculty apathetic? (I’ve got to reorganize this post and also make one on ventriloquism and strategies to hide the notion of slavery … also, in France you can’t look up “Blackness” or “Black” as a term in archives)

I have this book in PDF, since I have not found my paper copy, and it is a good thing, too. A paragraph I have cut for now, but need to use, is: “Worthy of analysis is the ambiguous economic efficiency of prisons: they generate income, but they also have a high economic cost. At … More Lockdown America

It appears I will have to read her if I am ever to understand Denise Ferreira da Silva, or my prison paper. If reform makes things worse, and revolution is impossible, is there a solution other than marronage? Axé.