…due to lack of space, but it was fun: In a recent meeting on teaching, experts opined to my colleagues and me on the evils of lecture courses, which they termed “one-way delivery.” Most of us never taught that way and have never been taught that way; those Power Pointing for us, however, and only … More Cut from my opinion piece
This morning I have written 213 words, a very good draft. There are only four sentences and revision will mean turning these into six. I finished at 11:19 and I do not know what time I started. I had gotten up somewhere between seven and eight, had coffee and later breakfast, dealt with e-mail, read four … More Mo té écrit…
Today, Tuesday, I polished 560 words and wrote 59. This took three hours. According to Trollope, it should have taken 33 minutes: 30 for revision and 3 for writing 59 words. According to Thomas, the 59 words should have taken 27 minutes. If I were to consider all the time allotted me by both Thomas … More Word count
Some people are learning not to speak up and in academia, this is typically how one is coached: do not say anything, all you will do is ruin your credibility as a reasonable person. I disagree and I think people should learn that to speak up, you do not have to be outraged or impassioned. … More On speaking up
It is that one-up, one-down position. The assumption is that one does not know what one is doing at all, needs very basic instruction and is recalcitrant. Questions or attempts to refocus discussion to a more sophisticated are met with this behaviorist, “you have not gotten my point yet.” I have already been underestimated far … More Now I understand still more about my reaction to Boice and the Boiceans
This is my idea for the IILI conference at the Colegio de México. It would build on a piece I am giving here. It would revisit Schwarz’ concept of “misplaced ideas” — which may be somewhat outdated or limited or something, such that it is worth discussing and revising. The concept really does apply to … More Cecilia Valdés y las ideas fuera de lugar
Today I had a leisurely breakfast with my guest and took her to the station, after which I did some errands. I came home and started laundry, looked at e-mail and did some financial things, and then it was noon. I had lunch and sat down to write, taking short breaks to wrap packages, make … More Le lundi
Ahora bien. Tomorrow I will start writing it in English and it will, as we have said, begin with Bolívar and then go on to Doris Sommer. Next it will talk about Goldberg and da Silva (and mention Sanjinés and Lund). The point is that mestizaje and the nation are old topics but race, modernity … More Race and the state…
♦ There is little distance between exogamy and incest since Don Cándido is everyone’s father (as it were). ♦ There is no compatibility between the hierarchical, slaveowning society and the bourgeois, modern one. The secrets that must be kept from the bourgeois society cause problems: it cannot be said that Cecilia is Leonardo’s sister, so their romance … More Cecilia Valdés, again
The most memorable sentence in his (also favorable review) is about Latin America, of which he asks: “Where else, after all, has interracial sex been a more important source of national identities?” This 1992 review is in HAHR. As you can see, even while working a festival and spending the entire morning taking tourists around … More J. C. Chasteen on Sommer
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