The School of Life on some pivotal moments in the development of Romanticism, adjusted the way we feel and look at the world – influencing thoughts on love, nature, industry and children.
Related : A longer piece on the shortcomings of Romanticism.
Category: history
Radio Open Source on Caribbean climate geopolitics
An episode of Christopher Lydon’s Radio Open Source on hurricanes in the Caribbean, their unnaturalness, climate change, geopolitics and environmental justice.
A few words by Edwidge Danticat.
To re-dedicate all sites
The memorial to the enslaved is in place at the Harvard law School. A dream come true. pic.twitter.com/bclT6MxjGl
— Annette Gordon-Reed (@agordonreed) September 6, 2017
Haitian Heritage
A speech act – Declare that you’re free and independent then you are free and independent, with caveats. In Miami, heritage is marked by, at least, a monument and a holiday.
“Haïti, présences africaines, ruptures et mythologies”
Dany Laferrière au Collège de France: « Haïti, présences africaines, ruptures et mythologies »
Also, Dany Laferrière: An American Journey Film Series at Indiana University; La dérive douce d’un enfant de Petit-Goâve directed by Pedro Ruiz, 2009.
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr. in St. Augustine, Florida
June 12, 1964
On June 11, 1964, Dr. King and several other activists were arrested for attempting to integrate the Monson Motor Lodge. When interviewed during his brief incarceration, King pledged to challenge segregation in St. Augustine “even if it takes all summer.”
Miami-Dade Junior College. February 15, 1972.
Even the dead won’t be safe… via itself.blog
Avowed socialist… via Jacobin
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro, Cuba’s leader of revolution, dies at 90.(bbc) Hero and tyrant.
Fidel Castro, who towered over his Caribbean island for nearly five decades, a shaggy-bearded figure in combat fatigues whose long shadow spread across Latin America and the world, is dead at age 90. (Miami Herald)
…the fiery apostle of revolution (nytimes)
…fight colonialism (atlanta black star)
“A revolution is not a bed of roses” 1959 (the guardian)
Blacks americans and Castro (Quartz)
Fidel Castro shares a laugh with Malcolm X at the Hotel Theresa in New York, October 19, 1960.
REUTERS/Prensa Latina
Toni Morrison
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear by Toni Morrison
March 23, 2015, The Nation.
Christmas, the day after, in 2004, following the presidential re-election of George W. Bush.
I am staring out of the window in an extremely dark mood, feeling helpless. Then a friend, a fellow artist, calls to wish me happy holidays. He asks, “How are you?” And instead of “Oh, fine—and you?”, I blurt out the truth: “Not well. Not only am I depressed, I can’t seem to work, to write; it’s as though I am paralyzed, unable to write anything more in the novel I’ve begun. I’ve never felt this way before, but the election….” I am about to explain with further detail when he interrupts, shouting: “No! No, no, no! This is precisely the time when artists go to work—not when everything is fine, but in times of dread. That’s our job!”
A similar sentiment. (Paris Review)