The work requires an orientation toward action and problem-solving that in my experience, at least, is unusual and often unwelcome in universities. Here the formation of a committee to study a problem is often a way to defer action, but the activist world one must stand on convictions and act. ***Our old organizations in the … More Notes I have now cut and should perhaps resurrect
Around the time Hayes was released my life took me away from New Orleans, but I stayed in touch with Gary and the other prisoners by letter and telephone. I began visiting again, although from a different town, when I returned to Louisiana. The groups I had been involved with dispersed as other lives changed … More Cutting More
Put in because I was told I needed signposting. Then taken out. For this volume on the inter-discipline of law and literature, I address not a confluence of fields but the disjunction between academic activity and activist work at large. Axé.
… so it wasn’t that I didn’t want to do that, it was that I wanted a break from it, needed one, and had all this pressure not to, so instead of saying no I said yes and then shut down, could not wake up. I do regret that, it’s what this whole blog is … More Recycling Peru/Vanguardias andinas
…is not prisons and forced or coerced labor. It is the creation of an underclass (felons without rights, migrants without rights, and so on). Axé.
Most faculty do not put a great deal on the line even in terms of participation in service, shared governance, and unions. They do not take time to attend Regents’ meetings, even to speak up for their own programs. They do not participate in civic life outside of work. That is, they do not dare … More Cut from my piece
i used to ask my father, who spoke better than I do, what my Spanish sounded like and he would say it did not like a particular place, it just sounded real, such that it must be from a place, so that place must exist. This is why people always ask me, what is the … More Oh and then there is this video I have for the students: My Spanish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE-c4Bj_RT0
Maybe I need to storyboard this piece. I am casting about because I am not sure what these people really want. They say academia and activism. My story might be: This is a weak storyboard. Axé.
(This is for the recast of that paper.) On the question of the interaction of academia and activism: In my case, activism has been a parallel life that takes time away from academic work. It is a sacrifice I have accepted, although not with the peace Brittany Letiecq says she has. (I also have much … More The parallel lives approach
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