Craig Santos Perez
On Being Mayonesian
The only thing I remember from my first day of pre-school is the lunch my mom packed me: a canned tuna sandwich with the crust of the white bread cut off. My favorite part of the sandwich was the magical…
The Poetics of Racialization (Part 2)
“Truly racial” is a useful way to think about the kind of racialized poetics that attempts to express a direct representation of a racialized voice and experience. “Truly racial” aims to capture “racial individuality” both in content and form (we…
The Poetics of Racialization (Part 1)
Over at the Montevidayo blog, Sandy Florian posted an interesting piece on being a Latina poet who doesn’t write the kind of “sociological or ethnographic literature that gives voice to people with Latin American heritages who grew up in the…
Today, I am Blogging about the Grocery Store
Kokua Market, a co-op grocery store near the University of Hawaiʻi, at Mānoa, sells “quality, minimally processed, natural foods with a strong emphasis on locally grown and organically grown foods.” I recently became an “owner” to support the co-op, joining…
Fresh Fish Islander
I am waiting for the short grain brown rice to cook. It takes longer than white rice. Sometimes I feel like brown rice is on “Pacific time.” Sometimes I feel like a short grain brown rice islander. As I…
