Día de la Dignidad y Resistencia de los Pueblos Indígenas

This is October 12 and I have forgotten to mention it in two classes so far. Today in Guatemalan protests against the putative heroism of Columbus and the Hispanization of America (which is colonization, Europeanization, whitening) one Native person has been killed so far that I know of.
Imer Boror, aged 19, was killed by gunfire [...]

Free Song

In the seventies when I was a child, that is to say an undergraduate, we would sometimes go to the airport in San Francisco to greet and orient prisoners just released from jails located in countries further south. At solidarity meetings I would later translate for these people, which meant I had to say sentences [...]

The Other 9-11

Victor Jara, presente.

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Toussaint L’Ouverture

Haiti’s neglected revolutionary history is one of the issues of which this weblog exists to remind people. Here we have just the first part of one Toussaint L’Ouverture video. If you click on it, you will find the next parts.
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Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Isis the Scientist

A fabulous post on the limits and pitfalls of “civil discourse.” Via Historiann.
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On Wage Slavery. On Early Republican Baltimore. Several Things Academics Should Realize. Mario Vargas Llosa.

I am on strike, so we will read this important book review, brought to my attention by my Facebook Friend, Mike. It is a good review of a book which is obviously good for my research, both academic and artistic, and even better for Clio Bluestocking’s research, as it concerns slavery and wage slavery in [...]

Let’s Talk About Sex … and the Levees

…so as to drive up my hit count while I am on strike. We are going to talk about sex but it is also Juneteenth, in celebration of which I am Twittering about one of my ancestral homes. As one of the anthropologists studying it says, “It wasn’t a romantic, nice place to live. . [...]

Regarding the Situation in the Peruvian Amazon

I am still on strike, but this petition being circulated through LASA contains very good background information on the matter. It is a pronouncement to the international community, the Peruvian State, and the people of Peru, and it has been composed by a committee of important and thoughtful Peruvians and Peruvianists. Read it, it’s smart. [...]

Sign the Petition to Bobby

I am still on strike. I wrote this for love, not for money.
“You were a ‘young Turk’ when you arrived here, but you are no longer,” noted my friend. I think I know what ze means — from my own perspective, at least. I used to know I should protect research time by only participating [...]

Strike Aid!

Thanks to Undine, we have a way for everyone to help with my strike: click on the links to my Blog Supporters! This will help remind my advertisers that I do have readers. I need the revenue because I work at a public university in Bobby Jindal’s state.
In gratitude I will post some notes [...]