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What Is A Scholar? or, Primordial River. Original Groove

22/12/2008

ERRORS OF MY WAYS/JOB DESCRIPTION What my job ideal description was and is: Active, fast-paced career in large, urban, research oriented, policy making institution, involving national and international partners. Find documents, analyze and discuss them, discover their role in the national and international imaginary. Make decisions, write reports. Organize research groups. Write books alone and … More What Is A Scholar? or, Primordial River. Original Groove

Stolen from Servetus

20/12/2008

Servetus says being a scholar … * is about having a question or questions you need to answer. Not want, need to answer. For you or for the world. Not for your tenure committee or to fill out your vita. To inform the world. To change the world. To find the truth. Your truth, whether … More Stolen from Servetus

En ville!

19/12/2008

Je suis en ville! Je ne rentre pas à Maringouin jusqu’à la nuit! C’est merveilleux! I keep thinking I have a Serious Mental Health Problem I need to blog my way out of. But I do not – I merely cannot take the suburbs and the suburbanites, that is all. That is why I stay … More En ville!

El niño Stanton

18/12/2008

Do you like me? Yes, and you? Yes, yes. Cuando me quedo solo me quedan todavía tus diez años, los tres caballos ciegos, tus quince rostros con el rostro de la pedrada y las fiebres pequeñas heladas sobre las hojas del maíz. Stanton, hijo mío, Stanton. A las doce de la noche el cáncer salía … More El niño Stanton

Katrina and the Corps

17/12/2008

“Behavior like this, by the Corps of Engineers, illustrates the need for a truly independent analysis of the levee failures in metro New Orleans. Behavior like this is further reason we need the 8/29 Investigation Act!” Levees.org: http://www.levees.org. Axé.

T-Boy

17/12/2008

It is cold. I have had three amazing adventures lately, one with vocabulary, another consisting of a recruiting visit to a local high school, arguably the most valuable thing I have done this year although nobody who “counts” will believe me, and a third resulting in revelations for academic job candidates. Vocabulary: the word is … More T-Boy

Certificate of Whiteness

15/12/2008

The son of a doctor employed on a sugar plantation, nineteenth century Cuban writer Cirilo Villaverde had to present a “certificate of whiteness” to enroll in school. These certificates were ostensibly proofs of lineage and purity of blood. They could also be obtained, as José Piedra reminds us, through a demonstration of literacy in Latin … More Certificate of Whiteness

Cool Clips of Sunday

14/12/2008

This is Dance With Me by Nouvelle Vague. * Shopping Update: This week I have acquired a bicycle pump. I want the Mad River Synergy 12 canoe/kayak hybrid. Axé.

Creedence Clearwater Revival

14/12/2008

MUSIC TO GRADE BY It is a working weekend, so we will sing work songs! I never paid a great deal of attention to the Creedence Clearwater Revival but I associate them with California because when I was a child, they were on all the radios. As a result of this they are the soundtrack … More Creedence Clearwater Revival

Awards Night

13/12/2008

So, after going out to dinner where I discovered a number of shocking facts and more shocking hypotheses, I have made grades. Despite my earlier complaints, some awards are due. Various random individuals did well, but in terms of groups bouquets go to: 1. GREEKS, ATHLETES, and STUDENT GOVERNMENT. You did not use to study, … More Awards Night

Writing in Memory of Paulo Freire