I appreciate your summaries and commentaries. Those would be a very sad loss to this site.

That is a great space!

That is one of the best bars in New York. Lovely place. Great to hear about it here.

Thanks for positing this. I studied with him as an undergraduate and learned a great. I appreciate your distilling these points from his book.

Using “United Statesian” is one way some articulate this centuries long anti-authoritarian, anti-colonial, and anti-imperial project 7/

This song, written during the dictatorships of the 60s and 70s in the region, is about love and solidarity among the region’s peoples in the face of oppression 6/

Gilberto Gil’s “Soy Loco Por Tí America [I am Crazy about you America},” is perhaps the most poetic expression of this multinational idea of America. www.google.com/search?sca_e... 5/

What appears to be the imposition of an unwanted demonym to a US citizen is an effort by many Latin Americans to challenge the appropriation of a culturally and politically valuable supernational demonym 5/

Today in Latin America, US citizens and officials are referred to, legally and formally, as Estdado Unidense. United Statesian or USian is a translation of this. Spend enough time there and it feels normal, at least when you say it in Spanish or Portuguese. 4/

Americano is a broader demonym that has longstanding cultural valence in Latin America. In his efforts to promote a continental decolonization movement, Simon Bolivar referred to the inhabitants of the region “Americanos” in his 1815 “Letter from Jamaica,” an text in Latin American independence. 3/

“Americano” is an old term that in Latin America refers to all of the inhabitants of the hemisphere. This term continues to have cultural and historical valence in the region. We shouldn’t see it as the imposition on US citizens but rather an expression of a project of regional solidarity 2/

When Latin American’ push USian as a term for US citizens it isn’t about an unwanted demonym being imposed on those of us from the United States. It is, rather, about solidarity and belonging in the hemisphere 1/

Wonderful database. Couldn't agree more.

Can you explain how the data could be misused? I am not a specialist in this and it would be helpful to know some of the ways this data could be abused. Thank you.

The Gleaner writes that the Jamaican ambassador in Washington is coordinating relief efforts. The article also says the NY consulate is coordinating donations in New York.

jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead...

Essa é boa

The ferries have been a really nice contribution to quality of life in my neighborhood. Thank you!

🎬 Film Screening: Los Olvidados (1950)

Join us for Luis Buñuel’s powerful classic, followed by a Q&A session.

🗓️ Tuesday, Sept. 23
🕕 6:00 PM
📍 Segal Theatre, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

📩 RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu

A Classroom Clash Over Course Content Went Viral. Texas A&M Fired the Instructor and Removed 2 Administrators. The flap was sparked Monday by a Republican state lawmaker, who posted videos that he said show an exchange between an instructor and a student over discussion of gender identity.

The syllabus can be found in the Chronicle article:

www.chronicle.com/article/a-cl...

This is the course description for English 360 from the department website and the course catalog:

ENGL 360 Literature for Children
Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Representative writers, genres, texts and movements. Prerequisite: Junior or senior classification.

A Classroom Clash Over Course Content Went Viral. Texas A&M Fired the Instructor and Removed 2 Administrators. The flap was sparked Monday by a Republican state lawmaker, who posted videos that he said show an exchange between an instructor and a student over discussion of gender identity.

The entire syllabus can be found in the Chronicle of Higher Education Article
www.chronicle.com/article/a-cl...

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Saw this is Dallas. Their website is pro-secessionist:

texitcoin.org/texas/The-Ne...

True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

Great Book!

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The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
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Can you say more about what this is about?

📢 Hearing Cuban Voices in Times of Crisis
Join us for a powerful bilingual panel featuring Cuban scholars and artists reflecting on oral history, censorship, and academic freedom.

🗓️ Thursday, May 8 | 6 PM
📍 Rooms 9206/07, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
💻 Hybrid via Zoom
✉️ RSVP: bildner@gc.cuny.edu

Also interested in learning what type of bad law the other media organizations were worried about.

My 11 year-old is really bummed about this.