Office Beautiful
21/06/2013
I have won awards for beautiful offices and office doors at two universities. That is not me in the doorway, but it is my office. Axé.
Category: What Is A Scholar?
An academic study of academic advice
21/06/2013
…would look at the research university conceived as support of industry, with an emphasis on “productivity.” I am not at all opposed to work and production and I favor more of these and not less, but in this the product gets a distorted emphasis. The student’s putative need for improved study methods is conflated with … More An academic study of academic advice
Kerouac on writing
20/06/2013
“…you’ve got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.” This is the one phrase I like from On the Road and it is anti-Boycean, and it rejects the values of Reeducation. Axé.
Sobre la expresión “nuestros negros”
17/06/2013
In the last NEH seminar I attended there was a Brazilian scholar who gave a talk about the African cultural origins of “our Negroes,” as she said. White Brazilian scholars and European scholars of Brazil are very concerned about the negative influence Black persons and movements from the United States and, to some extent, the … More Sobre la expresión “nuestros negros”
It’s so Spanish…
14/06/2013
Foods I have eaten since arriving in New Orleans are: – seafood gumbo – shrimp remoulade – trout with crabmeat Foods remaining to be eaten are: – sausage and rabbit jambalaya – seafood omelette po-boy – shrimp grillade If you are perceptive, you will see the Spanishness of all this. Axé.
Categories of academic advice
14/06/2013
I really will have to write my manual since I have so much to say. The question on advice is, what are the motives of the advisor? 1/ Sharing, and money. They are willing to sell expertise. Fair enough. 2/ Things people wish they had known: they wish to share experience and views. Of interest. … More Categories of academic advice
Let us see if this is less boring: 162 words
12/06/2013
The cultural identities consolidated by writers like José Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz, Nicolás Guillén, Gilberto Freyre, and Oswald de Andrade, and naturalized as national discourses from the 1920s forward, are derived from earlier formulations. But their cultural emphasis is new, as are their proclamations that the mestizo is superior rather than degraded. The mestizo nation of … More Let us see if this is less boring: 162 words
157 revised, and still not excellent words
12/06/2013
The cultural identities consolidated by writers like José Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz, Nicolás Guillén, Gilberto Freyre, and Oswald de Andrade, and naturalized as national discourses from the 1920s forward, are derived from earlier formulations. But their cultural emphasis is new, as is their reading of mixture to have produced a superior, and not degraded or derivative … More 157 revised, and still not excellent words
I do not like this paragraph after all, and must improve the prose
11/06/2013
It is in the twentieth century that this racialized discourse becomes cultural, and mestizaje becomes a trope for the nation. The cultural identities consolidated by writers like José Vasconcelos, Fernando Ortiz, Nicolás Guillén, Gilberto Freyre, and Oswald de Andrade, and naturalized as national discourses from the 1920s through the 1960s and beyond, are derived from … More I do not like this paragraph after all, and must improve the prose
Total words today, 92 and continuing, as I procrastinate about taking the car to the shop…
11/06/2013
If mestizaje in the colonial period was a strategy supporting hispanization and European hegemony, the nineteenth century nation-states harnessed it to marginalize blackness and indigeneity yet more thoroughly than the colony had done (Mariátegui 1928, Lund). The mestizo as idealized citizen-subject supported, and did not contest elite hegemony; alliances were with the lighter, not the darker … More Total words today, 92 and continuing, as I procrastinate about taking the car to the shop…
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