REVIEWS: Modernity Challenged, or how I learned to love others

Geoffrey Fox <gf@geoffreyfox.com> and Lorrin Thomas <lthomas2@camden.rutgers.edu> have indulged us with two fine reviews: 1- Fox: “Frustrated Bourbons vs. Urban Reality in Old Mexico“ http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31423 2- Thomas: “Against A U.S.-Dominated Modernity“ http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31919 The theme of modernity, be it in Mexico, Cuba, or the United States, ties Fox and Thomas’ reviews together. Though one more than the other, … Continue reading →

2 Puerto Rico Sites Now US Historic Landmarks

Reblogged from Repeating Islands: Two Puerto Rican sites have been named U.S. historic landmarks: the colonial district of Old San Juan and the home of a poet and literary critic, the Associated Press reports. Old San Juan is the oldest city of any U.S. state or jurisdiction. It is also the site of the oldest … Continue reading →

What's It Going to Take to Get Men to Stop Raping Women? | Alternet

Reblogged from Habari Gani, America!: “I wouldn’t say she was completely passed out but she wasn’t in any state to make a decision for herself.”  That’s what one of the witnesses in the Steubenville, Ohio, trial told police of the 16-year-old girl at the center of the case,  according to ABC News. Perhaps that witness was one … Continue reading →

How A Single National Park Might Help Transform a Nation: Haiti's Pic Macaya

Reblogged from Repeating Islands: Haiti‘s Challenges
Haiti’s President Michel Martelly (“Sweet Micky” to his music fans) has been urging the world to view Haiti as a tourist destination. It certainly used to be. In 1975, Hillary and Bill Clinton honeymooned in Haiti, as have countless other couples. More importantly, Haiti is, for all her heartache, simply … Continue reading →

Jules Verne’s Forgotten Bermuda Adventure

Reblogged from Repeating Islands: This article appeared in Bernews.com. Follow the link below for the original report, lots of interesting graphics and a video. His prodigious imagination took him on journeys to the earth’s core, into lunar orbit — and to an imaginary islet off the coast of Bermuda where a mad genius develops a … Continue reading →

The Winter of the Monarch

Reblogged from Repeating Islands: Mexican novelist Homero Aridjis and Florida professor Lincoln P. Brower published today an op-ed piece in The New York Times that speak to the interconnectedness of our North and South American ecologies. It is a sad tale of the fate of our migrating butterflies. IN the village of Contepec, in Michoacán, … Continue reading →

El Yunque, Majestic Rocky Icon of Puerto Rico: Impervious to the Ravages of Time?

Reblogged from Repeating Islands: Anvil-shaped promontory formed inside an ancient supervolcano, as Cheryl Dybas reports in this reports for the National Science Foundation. El Yunque. It could be the name of an ancient chieftain. On the island of Puerto Rico, in a sense it is. El Yunque, which means "the anvil" in Spanish, is a … Continue reading →