Here is what Rob Brezsny has to say to me this week — fortunately since I am going on vacation for FOUR DAYS, during which I will only do teaching related activity and no research. Let the boundaries blur a bit. Don’t stick too rigidly to the strict definitions. Play around with some good old-fashioned … More Still more on academic advice
“Yeah, it’s as though the law nominally exists for us, but is held from us at the same time.” There is something about this. It is my evoke-and-elide thesis again. Things exist yet do not, and this appears to be a characteristic of modern states. I do not understand it yet but much of what … More Modernity and the law
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
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
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
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…
“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
Here it is. Iceland is the best country, and Afghanistan the worst; Maine is the best state and Louisiana the worst. Number of police employees and persons incarcerated in Louisiana are what push us over the edge but we have many other indicators of a lack of peace. Within the United States, only Louisiana comes out red … More 2013 Global Peace Index
Yes, it is slow and not original, but I have a lot else going on and this moves my piece ahead. It could use further precision; the need for precision and concision is making me go slowly since I am about to argue that Doris Sommer misreads history and need to set a very clear … More Words today: 80
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
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