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Author leads caravan to “smuggle” removed books into Arizona
nbclatino: Chicano!, one of the books no longer available in the classroom in Tucson, Arizona.(Courtesy Arte Publico Press) Using a word meant to turn the infamous narco-trafficking phrase on its head, Latino activists calling themselves the librotraficantes (book traffickers) are marching their caravan of books through Texas and New Mexico to Arizona in protest of…
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Karma bookstore‘s in-house publishing house just released a novella, entitled What We Lose in Flowers, by art dealer and curator Bill Powers which tells the story of a Peter Beard, an artist in a failing relationship with a younger woman who used to date his son. The book opens with a quote from John Currin,…
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mohandasgandhi: crookedindifference: Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear device. This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945. The date of the test is usually considered to be the beginning of the Atomic Age. The above picture is the Trinity explosion, 0.016 seconds after detonation.…
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smarterplanet: Steven Wolfram: The Personal Analytics of My Life One day I’m sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves. But because I’ve been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago. I actually assumed lots of other people were doing it too, but apparently they were…
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Tom Morris: Oppression, identity and sexuality
Tom Morris: Oppression, identity and sexuality tommorrisdotorg: Oh yeah, what a lovely, academic-ish name for a post. It’d be even better if it had a colon afterwards, then a subtitle starting with the word “towards”. Oppression, identity and sexuality: towards a poststructuralist hermeneutic of something or other. See, I don’t like talking about who I…
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ephemeraa: “Obsessions Make My Life Worse and My Work Better” by Stefan Sagmeister
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nbclatino: Acclaimed director Robert Rodriguez at last night’s Comcast event in Washington D.C. to officially launch El Rey network. El Rey, proposed by Rodriguez and FactoryMade Ventures, will be an action-packed, entertainment network in English for both Latino and general audiences. Programs will offer a little bit of everything, including reality, scripted and animated series,…
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newshouramgrad: Young black and Hispanic students are far more likely to receive tough school punishments, including suspensions, than white students. Here, the NewsHour breaks down the complexities behind a new set of data released by the Department of Education.
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dropouthangoutspaceout: I should re-read The Grapes of Wrath.
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nbclatino: Hollywood film director Robert Rodriguez introduces his new network, El Rey, which Comcast, NBCLatino’s parent company, announced in late February. Rodriguez says he wanted to create a channel that his five kids, who are bilingual growing up in the U.S., would enjoy. Today, Comcast is formally unveiling four new channels in Washington D.C., among…