FOR EXPLANATION AND SOURCE SEE BANDERA TRICOLOR It’s late afternoon at the Latin Labor Solutions recruitment office in Monterrey, Mexico, and hundreds of prospective workers are crammed into the narrow alleyway between the office and the building next door, waiting restlessly in the 90-degree heat. They perch on duffel bags or lean against the stucco … More Bandera Tricolor A
While unfamiliar to most Americans, the [existing guest-worker] program has become the template for an expanded . . . program now being hotly debated in Congress. Proponents of the plan argue that temporary labor visas give immigrants greater rights and protections while providing employers with a reliable labor force. Yet workers, labor organizers, lawyers and … More Bandera Tricolor
This is the news (as reported by AP), and this is what Ashley Morris says about it. Morris’ post includes a copy of Tulane President Scott Cowan’s comments on the matter. Cowan says Tulane followed its Faculty Handbook very closely. But I have read Tulane’s Faculty Handbook (in its pre-Katrina version). It was a very … More AAUP Censure
See Siegfried Sassoon’s Survivors, written at Craiglockhart in October, 1917: No doubt they’ll soon get well; the shock and strain Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk. Of course they’re ‘longing to go out again,’ — These boys with old, scared faces, learning to walk. They’ll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed Subjection to the … More Flag Day
I. Hoy me dijeron unas cosas muy interesantes sobre la famosa Reeducación, a saber: Si los reeducadores no conocen a fondo, o no entienden bien las filosofías o teorías de las que te vienen citando meros sound bytes, y si tú llevas en serio lo que dicen y estás pensando o sabes pensar, los vas … More Sobre el alma
I I wrote a page of my paper, and then I went to the store. I wrote another page, and then I took the rest of the day to write in my novel, which has no schedule and no publisher, and which would not count at work since I was not hired as a “creative … More La lentitude aujourd’hui
I Another book I would like to reread is Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo. I think of it now because I have realized that academic writing is easier than blogging. I started blogging to jump-start academic writing, but their relationship seems to have reversed itself. This might be a sign of success. My scholarly texts would … More Jazz Poem, Voodoo Aesthetics
I am reading a fascinating and also funny essay by a scholar who spent most of her life working on the poet of my book manuscript on hiatus. It recounts the misadventures that work on this poet – who might be a shade, might be a vampire, might be an arsonist or a murderer, or … More The Idea of Order at Key West
“Fighting that bears no fruit” is what Nezua dislikes about lo académico. It is the best concise diagnosis of the problem I have seen. It took me about five years of professordom to finally understand: these people want to complain and struggle, but they do not want to resolve problems. There is also the penchant … More “Fighting That Bears No Fruit”
Not yet being a Bodhisattva, I do not always feel one hundred percent sisterly. Some days I have extreme difficulty being nice to certain well-heeled women I know who are very proud of their so-called independence and authority but are actually running dogs of patriarchy (as Mao might have said). One such informs me now … More Patriarchal Women II
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