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• Ongoing Obsessions in African American Studies

  Posted: December 30, 2009, 1:31 pm by keguro

  I rarely blog about “the profession.” Make that, I have blogged rarely over the past few months. Yet, two sessions attended yesterday stay with me. One, I reference obliquely, the other I want to note here. Around 2004 or so, the exact date eludes me, a loose collective of schools in the Midwest started what [...]

• Afterlife of Exuberance

  Posted: December 30, 2009, 1:25 pm by keguro

  A session at the MLA has me thinking about the afterlife of exuberance, about how easy it has been (or seemed to be) to attach the person and actions of Obama to feelings and acts occasioned by his election, in part, but in no way reducible to his person or personality. In this prematurely post-Obama [...]

• Complex and Contradictory

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 2:45 am by keguro

  I am tired of reading that x is “complex and contradictory.” This is not an argument worth reading. It is barely an argument. It is a tic. It should be eliminated from all academic writing. But I still have to wade through that 1980s and 1990s stuff that states x is “complex and contradictory.” Ack! [...]

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Yet more fish cakes

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