Category Archives: Enlightenment

One more issue of PMLA bites the dust

Posted on 15th September 2013 by Iansã

To get me to not read something, just put it in PMLA. The May 2013 issue in particular, I should want to read as it is all full of Latin American and comparative things, but I do not. Is it … Continue reading →

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Irene Silverblatt, and the Spanish discourse around “raza”

Posted on 25th October 2012 by Iansã

I am going to write a blurb about my book as though it were a person, and I will use Irene Silverblatt’s mini-bio as a model. I also need to investigate ideas of race in Spain, and Spring 2013 is … Continue reading →

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Geomodernisms

Posted on 22nd October 2012 by Iansã

This first chapter is elegantly written and very well informed. Consider the Middle Passage as the founding moment of modernity, and not the 18th century ideas of freedom; remember that Black labour is what made possible the high standard of … Continue reading →

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The Dark Side of the Enlightenment

Posted on 10th April 2012 by Iansã

Emmanuel Eze’s book Race and the Enlightenment is actually a reader, an anthology of Enlightenment writings on race. Just think of what one could do with that.

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Charles Mills and Emmanuel Eze

Posted on 10th April 2012 by Iansã

I have to read them.

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Nightmares of the lettered city

Posted on 31st March 2012 by Iansã

This is the book.

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Steele Commager

Posted on 12th December 2011 by Iansã

Jefferson, nationalism, and the enlightenment. Maybe this is where I should start my course.

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Adiós al discurso moderno en el Perú V

Posted on 12th August 2011 by Iansã

José Ignacio López Soria in Hueso húmero. Lima, n° 39, set. 2001, p. 47-57. On his blog, here, but I had a copy of it somehow in .txt and I had archived it here in my drafts, as it is … Continue reading →

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Adiós al discurso moderno en el Perú IV

Posted on 12th August 2011 by Iansã

José Ignacio López Soria in Hueso húmero. Lima, n° 39, set. 2001, p. 47-57. On his blog, here, but I had a copy of it somehow in .txt and I had archived it here in my drafts, as it is … Continue reading →

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Adiós al discurso moderno el el Perú III

Posted on 10th August 2011 by Iansã

José Ignacio López Soria in Hueso húmero. Lima, n° 39, set. 2001, p. 47-57. On his blog, here, but I had a copy of it somehow in .txt and I had archived it here in my drafts, as it is … Continue reading →

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