Slavery, Spain, Cuba
10/06/2020
On Bourbon reforms and slave societies. How modern Spain was created by its Cuban colony. Axé.
French Louisiana, and the police
04/06/2020
I really MUST study the Louisiana-Caribbean connection in greater detail — there’s a 19th century novel called Macandal, and Séjour has a short story, Le Mulâtre, about paternity as well as a play about Jewishness and limpieza de sangre. In police news, consider the story of Fred Hampton, some damning evidence on the FBI, and … More French Louisiana, and the police
Public library, and tile
24/05/2020
The university library is closed, but public library is open and the book I want is in it. This is rare. It’s even open now, and I can walk there. I’m going. I’m mesmerized by the choices of tile for the floor. My two other floors have tile by Segarra, and if I continue with … More Public library, and tile
Farvel, farvel
20/05/2020
For summer I am trying to step up my program of divesting myself of books and files. My focus is on copies of books I doubt I will read, and on journal issues now available electronically. Yesterday I got rid of a nice copy of George Steiner, After Babel, because the pages are so yellowed. … More Farvel, farvel
ERIP, and Disciplined Minds
13/05/2020
So now I’m a council member of ERIP, LASA’s section on ethnicity, race, and indigenous peoples, and you can’t say I don’t do service. Ergo, 2020-2022: President, Louisiana Conference of AAUP; Vice-President, Feministas Unidas; Council, ERIP. The university does not value my views but these organizations do. On being treated with disrespect: people who are … More ERIP, and Disciplined Minds
Sobre el modernismo
10/05/2020
I recycled today this issue of Revista Iberoamericana because you can see it all online. It is thirty years old. When it came out I knew so many people in it, and I think it is a good issue generally, so it was hard not to keep as a memento of myself, things I read … More Sobre el modernismo
Reading stories like an underdog
06/05/2020
This is an important little piece to read. And I want this book Global Raciality, but not at its price. I wish we had a library, and that it kept up with things. They have it at LSU-S and I should get it by interlibrary loan. And finally, I have always admired this article on … More Reading stories like an underdog
Logs of May
02/05/2020
1 Friday, planned: a/ work on classes, b/ buy tables, c/ decide yes or no on the AP reading, d/ do not work on research. Actual: a/ worked on classes, b/ investigated tables and decided against, c/ decided no on the AP reading, d/ opened abstract. 2 Saturday, planned: a/ work on classes, b/ cleaning, … More Logs of May
Silvia Tandeciarz
27/04/2020
I am not sure how easy it will be to get another copy of T’s important article on Spivak but I am recycling it because I simply must get a clearer desk, and clearer shelves. She says that it is not so much that Spivak puts French feminism in an international frame but that she … More Silvia Tandeciarz
Recycling colonial Brazil, or, Colonial identity in the Atlantic world . . . and Ferreira da Silva, again
26/04/2020
I went to this NEH institute almost 20 years ago where I was a bad student. I was partly there because I needed the scholarship money to survive the summer. And as it turned out we were to stay in these depressing dorms, and the NEH was broke that summer so the coolest speakers could … More Recycling colonial Brazil, or, Colonial identity in the Atlantic world . . . and Ferreira da Silva, again
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