“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; Mestizo presence did not disturb racial hierarchies, … More 30 additional words
One difference between them — the ones who are not tenured or on the tenure track, and who are mad about it — and me is that they made enormous sacrifices to be in graduate school, in the form of moving across the country to some disagreeable place and taking out significant loans because inflation … More The new faculty majority
That is the professor. Discuss. Axé.
Yesterday because of all these meetings and teaching related activities I touched work but did not write anything. Today it took me nine hours, nine, to edit and reformat my other article. I will touch work late tonight to keep up some form of rhythm. Tomorrow is house cleaning, errands, yard, and guests. I will … More Writing group goals have to be revised this week
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.
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
This is interesting on its own but it is mainly created to teach beginning graduate students how to read an article. They have to follow my notes, map them onto the article in question, fill in my gaps, and elaborate in a lucid way. I am using this piece because it is germane to the … More The complete Piedra article
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
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