Stephen Rittenberg deconstructs Professor De Genova, and shows him to be not just an odious hater of America, but a poseur, intellectually unworthy to be in the same academic department that was once the realm of Franz Boaz and Ruth Benedict.

Note once again the cant, ideological, ungrammatical and meaningless phrases: "racialized and spatialized", "reconceptualization" and my personal favorite "transnational urban conjunctural spaces". Can anyone reading De Genova's statements and letters seriously argue that his is a scholarly mind at work, striving for knowledge? Can anyone seriously argue that his is a mind striving towards coherence and clarity of expression? So my question for Columbia is this: do you, out of a sense of responsibility for your students, maintain a minimal standard for intelligence in your faculty? How widespread is such mindlessness among your faculty? And what happened to the moral obligation to be intelligent?

"Transnational urban conjunctural spaces"--it sounds like something from a bad episode of _Star Trek: Voyager_. Maybe the scriptwriters all went to Columbia.

Check out De Genova's letter to the editor. Here's another money quote, one that really shows you what he's all about: "In my brief presentation, I outlined a long history of U.S. invasions, wars of conquest, military occupations, and colonization in order to establish that imperialism and white supremacy have been constitutive of U.S. nation-state formation and U.S. nationalism. In that context, I stressed the necessity of repudiating all forms of U.S. patriotism."

This bozo makes Michael Moore look reasonable.

He also noted that Central & South Americans were "Americans" while calling for American deaths. Now he wants to kill Guatemalens too?!
He's gobbledy-gook stupid.