The Meditation on Rasanblaj Questionnaire #9
Carole McGranahan and Gina athena Ulysse Defined as assembly, compilation, enlisting, regrouping (of ideas, things, people, spirits; for example, fè yon rasanblaj, do a gathering, a ceremony, a protest), rasanblaj’s very linguistic formation subverted and resisted colonial oppression (M. Condé). Consider that article 16 of the 1685 French Code noir forbade enslaved of different masters […]
Why Is This Trash Can Yelling at Me? Big Bellies and Clean Green Gentrification
rasanblaj Rasanblaj: n. assembly, compilation, enlisting, regrouping (of ideas, things, people, spirits. For example, fè yon rasanblaj, do a gathering, a ceremony, a protest). “Hey there, good looking!” On a misty December day in downtown Brooklyn, my walk along Fulton Street was interrupted by a slew of high-tech trash cans trying to grab my attention. […]