I’m going to have some self-respect this semester. That is the most fundamental thing the Cajuns took from me. I’m taking it back. YES my field has validity, YES I am a valid person, NO I am not ashamed to be research faculty, NO I am not oppressing you. YES I believe in shared governance … More As in
Trying to turn myself into someone who can live with the Cajun victim narrative … it’s the same operation as in 19th century Latin American literature, they are trying to say the perpetuation of slave society is liberation. I will work on this. Axé.
“The rural bars that played the music were not exactly accepting of all peoples. Living in New Iberia for over a decade now has really opened my eyes to the horrific inequality that exists. Both the poor and wealthy white here propagate violent white nationalism. The justice system (under a very religious Catholic majority) allows … More On Cajun culture, from a friend
…but is this too violent? Abuse and misogyny are endemic in Cajun culture. If you do not know this, it is because you are sheltered. That is why the idealization of this culture in the tourist literature—that many now take for academic history–is intolerable to me. Do not sing me one more damned song. * … More I want to say it on Facebook…
It’s something along those lines, the task I was set. Prove to us that you have not stolen from us and you do not look down on us! And the burden of guilt dogs me every day, and I must prove these things so as to earn decent working conditions. The important thing to realize … More That unpayable debt
So many of the problems I have and have had, have had to do with abusive techniques of enforcing misogyny that I didn’t recognize for what they were. So many of the solutions I have had recommended to me were solutions designed for privileged,. mediocre white men. [And the happiness industry depoliticizes completely, and decontextualizes … More Fragmentary
Two books I am renouncing because I don’t think I will read them: Roemer, Telling Stories. I want to read it for teaching reasons and because I think it would really change my thinking on certain things, but I keep not reading it. I will return it to the library, finally. I’d buy it, but … More Padura and Roemer
“First, workers are alienated from the product of their labour. What they create does not belong to them, but to the owners of capital. The products of work confront workers as something external and powerful, appearing in the form of commodities, profits, and wealth controlled by others. The more workers produce, the poorer they become … More Academic efficiency under capitalism
Politically, one of the things to which I most object to in the white grievance narrative that is cajunismo — and that interestingly, is deployed the most by older men and certain emotionally deprived teen-boys (and I will note that it is a masculinist narrative, you don’t hear women singing it) — is its appropriation … More Enemistad
So again, it is: their political problem is not my psychological problem, or should not be. And it is political. Also: the psychological problems they have created with their politics are not my responsibility to solve. For instance, if they have made someone feel awful, I do not have to become a sacrificial victim to … More The program
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