“Unforgivable Blackness”
19/05/2013
“Race was the color of the system, but the system was not about race; it was about power.” Then there is this one, with a Miles Davis soundtrack: Axé.
Le soleil
19/05/2013
These shoes are the Merrell Evera Shift and they are heels for biking. I do not need them but I have decided I should indulge my shoe obsession at the planning level as much as possible. I am still learning what I can wear, so this is not a fetishism, it is research. One thing … More Le soleil
Bert Stern
18/05/2013
Jazz on a Summer’s Day (1960) is a documentary film made at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, and filmed and directed by noted commercial and fashion photographer Bert Stern and the film director Aram Avakian, who also edited the movie. The Columbia Records jazz producer, George Avakian, was the musical director of … More Bert Stern
Summer …
18/05/2013
I wish I still had this bicycle, but I hereby memorialize it, as it was stolen in March. At our institution attendance at graduation is required of students if they wish to receive the degree, and of faculty every term. It is as though the institution insisted on keeping us as captive audience for one … More Summer …
The hidden curriculum
18/05/2013
Eric Margolis, one of the people I met by starting an academic Facebook page, has this idea of the ‘hidden curriculum’ which I think applies to my project. I was at one point using this very old idea from Eagleton, cognitive and emotive discourses, but I like the idea of a hidden curriculum better. The … More The hidden curriculum
De la musique pour le weekend: Derek Walcott sings a St. Lucian song
17/05/2013
Recently recorded, this is truly charming. Walcott is 80 years old. Axé.
In which I am exploited or mistreated by a clueless assistant professor
17/05/2013
…and it is the last time, since I am not giving anyone the benefit of the doubt again. One keeps hearing about how assistant professors are mistreated but what about the one I got the job for, and got housing for, and who then, in his first year at the university, left said housing crawling … More In which I am exploited or mistreated by a clueless assistant professor
Research by Facebook
17/05/2013
I have become a Facebooker, and tonight I am using Facebook for research. I Friended some people who put up research links hand over fist. I might discover these books by browsing in bookstores, but there are no bookstores so on Facebook I learn about important books I should know but would probably not have … More Research by Facebook
That Quandary
16/05/2013
Now my piece is definitely finished, and I do like it. Of course it could take another form but I like this form, too, and I want to publish this version, not hold it until I have something longer, or more lasting than bronze. I thought I had made a decision but my most recent … More That Quandary
Zarico
16/05/2013
Do you remember that baile de cuna I got waved into, and that jinetero? Well, somebody caught it on film, and here is the evidence. I am the one in black jeans. We do not have enough pictures on this weblog, so we do what we can. This is in a new dancehall that is … More Zarico
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