This is Basilio Martín Patino’s film Caudillo, and we do not understand why FalangeTV are the ones who have put it up. You can also see his Queridímos verdugos, where he interviews executioners and prisoners from the Franco era, and two hours’ worth of Civil War footage chosen and arranged by him. Pío Baroja witnessed … More Caudillo
March 19 is St. Joseph’s day, my favorite holiday after Hallowe’en. This is an esoteric taste but it is the spring equinox and here the Mardi Gras Indians have important parades on this day. There are extravagant altars all over New Orleans and you must visit them, and eat the food that is on them. … More St. Joseph the Worker
If such a faith lasted longer in Spain than it did in the rest of Western Europe, this is partly because Franco’s triumph allowed Falangist historians to continue celebrating the achievements of the “raza hispanica” for many years. But it should be added that the “faith…in biological continuity”of Spanish fascists had its own distinctive flavor. … More Américo Castro was against the idea of a Hispanic “race,” but…
La tarde, acribillada de ventanas flota sobre los hilos del teléfono, y entre los atravesaños inversos de la hora se cuelgan los dioses de las máquinas. Su juventud maravillosa estalló una mañana entre mis dedos. y en el agua vacía de los espejos, naufragaron los rostros olvidados. Oh la pobre ciudad sindicalista andamiada de hurras … More VRBE III
Monday Grade three classes, prepare three Tuesday Car repair, plumber, roofer, call them all Teach three classes, work out Work on the deck Wednesday Finish preparing seminar, then give it Office hours 1-3 Meetings 3-6 Work out, start preparing classes Work on the deck Thursday Prepare and teach three classes, work out Work on the … More Liste, pour la semaine
Cecilia Valdés in New Orleans This paper considers some New Orleans sources, parallels and intertexts of Cirilo Villaverde’s Cecilia Valdés o la loma del Ángel: novela de costumbres cubanas (Havana, 1839-New York, 1882) and the fact that Cuba’s national novel was written over thirty years’ residence in the United States. Like José Martí, Benito Juárez, … More An unplanned child
Lomax’s description occurs in his documentary, Cajun Country, where his specific goal is to discuss the concept of “Cajun” not as a group of people so much as a cultural dynamic capable of absorbing and reworking a variety of influences, albeit most of them deriving from traditional folkways found in southern France. That goal is … More Alan Lomax, vendor of mestizaje…
Here is a discussion of him. It is interesting and he may not have been entirely wrong about the nature of Louisiana. Axé.
If race is constitutive of the modern state, as Goldberg demonstrates (2002), or of modernity itself, as da Silva argues (2007), the liberal assumption that inequality can be addressed within the framework of the nation does not hold. How might this perception change our understanding of these and other texts that have been read as … More My egalitarian bias keeps me from seeing this.
→I do not like my paper title and it wants to be in Spanish, anyway. I could do another paper, too, on Latinness and the idea of the Hispanic; somehow this could fit into my book; I actually gave a paper like that years ago and did not get back to it; it is one … More El lado oscuro del mestizaje: raza, estado, latinidad
