“Before the Portuguese discovered Brazil, Brazil had discovered happiness.” (de Andrade 94) This one line, phrase, sentence, or whatever you shall call it has been running through my mind since I first read Oswald de Andrade’s The Cannibalist Manifesto. I keep thinking about how so many people from before modernity up until now live/ lived […]
Bridging Social Media, Red House with Education
Cathy N. Davidson presents a clear and practically way to reshape the higher educational system with several different mythologies and practices. Throughout the book all of the ways in which we can reimagine Charles Eliot’s “New Education” are very possible and should be mandatory in order to ensure students growth in career development and life. […]
Removing the Mask
In the speech The Place of Indigenous Voice in the 21st Century, Tomson Highway said, “Every plant on Earth…has a role to play in the long survival of the planet.” After hearing Highway, I thought of Octavio Paz’s Mexican Mask, and how the mask is almost like the plants not getting enough water to fully […]
Leaving Denial
This week’s reading demonstrated how colonization has made many people’s history of their ancestors vanishes under modernity. Susana Cota Amaral quotes, “This week’s readings played a debate on the hegemonic epistemologies of forgetfulness and denial. Western colonial capitalism modes of producing knowledge have disenchanted and disregarded the indigenous and colonized ancestral culture, turning a “vast […]
Abruption in History
This week’s readings were filled with such enriching and very interesting topics I do not know where to begin. But as I was making my way to the last reading, I thought of this quote from one of my professors in my undergraduate studies related to the topic of slavery. She said something along the […]
The Performance of Language
The performance of language has been a prominent subject matter in the past four readings. How we speak, sing, or utter anything from our mouths’ dictate power and subjectivity over ourselves. In Paolo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire quotes, “Yet only through communication can human life hold meaning.” (Freire 77) Freire emphasizes that dialoguing […]