Denial of difference. This was one of my original insights on the problem I am trying to work out. Creole rhetoric after independence needs black characters to serve as mediators for white ones, works to bring everyone into what Piedra calls “literary whiteness”–you can be black and write, but you have to write race-neutral. And … More Evoke and elide / the denial of difference
NYT Opinion pp. 9, 11 1 September 2018. Pankaj Mishra. The religion of whiteness becomes a suicide cult “White men,” an obscure Australian academic named Charles Henry Pearson predicted in his 1893 book “National Life and Character: A Forecast,” would be “elbowed and hustled, and perhaps even thrust aside” by people they had long regarded … More “It is in the motherlands of democracy rather than in fascist Europe that racial hierarchies first defined the modern world”
Why is it important to refuse the idea of treating students like customers? Someone said: “Uneven and neglects US studies of managerialism, going out of her way not to cite Aronowitz, Ross, Slaughter, Rhoades, etc. Readings’ work was out of date when published. And it only lightly touches on the smile economy and the vast … More On teaching in the smile economy
Here is one of my favorite pieces on the Ronell case, and here is the other. Both writers are far better deconstructors and are tackling a far more difficult topic than are Ronell and Butler chatting on a line from Aretha Franklin. On her scholarship, I like this piece by Martin Jay. The MLA wrote … More Academic advice
…not available in Vichy State’s JSTOR. Globality Denise Ferreira da Silva Critical Ethnic Studies Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2015), pp. 33-38 Published by: University of Minnesota Press DOI: 10.5749/jcritethnstud.1.1.0033 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/jcritethnstud.1.1.0033 Axé.
El otro elusivo: la teoría racial de Denise Ferreira da Silva Abstracto original This paper will discuss some implications of Denise Ferreira da Silva’s work for the analysis of discourses of mestizaje and exceptionalism in modern Latin American literature, focusing on her concepts of transcendental poesis and the scene of engulfment in Toward a global … More How did I say it then
Here is the poster for my cousin Alexei Aizenman’s centenary exhibit at the Pushkin House-Museum on Arbat, in Moscow. You should really go if you are in town. In other news Gukira is a good blogger with an interesting post on Freire; I am told he is also the author of the best piece on … More Pushkin House-Musuem 23.VIII-16.IX
I have started paying $30/year for this site, to get the ads off it, and I am going to clean it up. I will be one of the last bloggers. I have discovered this poet, Silvia Goldman, who turns out to be the author of this piece I read some time ago and liked, as … More Novedades
They will next read translation manuscripts in the summer of 2019. Axé.
Giroux: “The great philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who was one of the first Marxist theoreticians who understood that almost every act of politics is a pedagogical practice, wrote a brilliant essay in 1916 on why he hates the indifferent. What he understood was that indifference, my term, was not an action that existed in a void … More Gramsci
