Posted by on Oct 10, 2009 in Albuquerque | 0 comments

Infrastructure fractures

Infrastructure fractures
Cruis­ing west on Cen­tral, past Coors, is never going to be the same again. I’ve watched it change, pas­sive eyes scan­ning the long, brown flats chock full of weeds green or brown as the sea­sons changed, from 5th grade through…well…now. Granted, I’m the pas­sen­ger less often, and...
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Posted by on May 30, 2009 in Homeland Security, Self-identity, The American Southwest | 0 comments

Judging from your response, you’re (still) the racist…

Judging from your response, you’re (still) the racist…
The Repub­li­can reac­tion to the nom­i­na­tion of Sonia Sotomayor is pre­dictable and equally dis­ap­point­ing. I am baf­fled by their knee-jerk reac­tions. I learned how to con­trol that habit after I got mar­ried and to put up with some­one else’s opin­ion and way of doing things on a...
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Posted by on Apr 13, 2008 in Languages | 1 comment

Señorita Ruth on: English Only Pt. 2

Are They Talk­ing About Me? What are the ide­o­log­i­cal impli­ca­tions of choos­ing an offi­cial lan­guage? What kind of under­ly­ing belief sys­tem does it betray? A major marker of cul­ture and iden­tity, lan­guage sep­a­rates worlds of expe­ri­ence. And when it’s not your own,...
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Posted by on Apr 11, 2008 in Languages | 3 comments

Señorita Ruth on: English Only Pt. 1

Nations & Lan­guage It’s easy to trace and under­stand the con­nec­tion between the ideas of “one nation” and “one lan­guage.” These sim­ple asso­ci­a­tions have out­lined the lan­guage poli­cies of west­ern Euro­pean coun­tries from the mid­dle of the 19th cen­tury for­ward....
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