Sunday: six hours, about three each on research and teaching Saturday: five hours, about three on research and two on service and housekeeping Friday (day off): one hour, research Thursday: nine hours, eight on teaching and consulting, one on research Wednesday: six hours, five on service and housekeeping and one on research Tuesday: eight hours, … More Work tracking weekend
This course is needed since Mexico has such a distorted and poor image, but apart from that there is so much material. We could look at Mexican and foreign theories. We could examine calaveras and decipher the china poblana. We could read Monsiváis and much more. This would also be a good course for study abroad. I could teach … More Another course in cultural studies: representations of Mexico and Mexicanness
Is the Brazilian racial situation anomalous, exceptional, unique? I say no and I would also suggest that at least some of the insistence on the mutability of race and the multiplicity of the ways in which racial meaning is and is not created, is a hedging device intended to screen racist practices from view. I … More Punch
I get to clock in another hour of work today, making five, because I have been experimenting with Lyx and that is what I am going to use. I will not have Scrivener, I will write in Lyx and put everything in well hierchized and well labeled files, old school style, and that is it. … More As e goes to infinity: further counter-advice on time
Now we have two novels in my chapter or essay which are explicitly about building the white nation, to the extent that they are about building one. That means it is time for more, or time to work on theoretical framework and structure. (I have always been outraged when people call cultural appropriation and ethnic … More Still more of that article
Two of the main pieces of advice given in the attempt to train people to compete down, and my answers to them. Standard: Submit to conferences abstracts for things you are going to write, that should be done by then. If they come out slightly different than planned, that is all right, you explain it … More More counter-advice
In this novel and the society it portrays, the maintenance of racially segregated families (the planter with an official and an unofficial family) leads to incest, which destabilizes the patriarchy because it collapses the control the planter maintains and also supports and extends by having multiple, separate families. This threatens to destroy (and not support) … More The last three paragraphs of that article
Unfortunately I just lost an important and substantial to-do list, and must start to recompose it. Monday I must be sure to call the gutter men and the roofers. There is also my university committee to deal with and I cannot continue to put this off, disgusted though I am with what is going on … More Sol y sombra III
Here is a good thought-piece, Fields Have Narratives, and Words Without Borders is one of the places I think I should publish fiction. Today instead I discovered the current location of a good scholar of the Spanish Enlightenment, and I joined the SCMLA for three years. I am going to submit to its conference in … More Sol y sombra II
In my post yesterday describing my day off, I neglected to add the local color. Here it is: ♦ The dermatologist’s office was very Republican. You could tell even out in the halls by the proliferation of middle aged men in LSU gear, and it was yet more obvious coming into the offices and seeing … More Sol y sombra I
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