I have finally fleshed out the research agenda: Citizenship has been at the fore of political struggles since before the Haitian Revolution in Saint Domingue, and later Haiti. Beginning with the tightening of colonial citizenship conferral on people of color in 1769, followed by the struggles...
Our nation-centered view of citizenship can only comprehend the predicament of minoritarian ‘belonging’ as a problem of ontology – a question of belonging to a race, a gender, a class, a generation becomes kind of a ‘second nature,’ a primordial identification, an inheritance of tradition,...
I've passed. Four weeks of non-stop writing, thinking, scribbling and worrying culminating in three hours of my stuttering, stammering, going blank, scribbling notes, laughing nervously and generally willing time to speed up (oh worm-hole, where were you?!), and i got four signatures. I promptly wandered out,...
I have a theory about graduate school - it only works if you're humble enough to admit that you're not perfect, if you submit yourself supple-y to the demands and admonitions, praises and critiques, mouldings and formations of the people you ask to take you...