Jorge Duany Ph.D.

Email:jduany@coqui.net

Dr. Jorge Duany is Professor of Anthropology of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras. During the spring semester of 2007, he was appointed the Bacardí Family Eminent Scholar in Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. He previously served as Director of the journal Revista de Ciencias Sociales and as Visiting Professor of Latino Studies at the University of Michigan. He has also been a Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and a Visiting Scholar at the Population Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, specializing in Anthropology, at the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University. His main research interests are Caribbean migration, ethnicity, nationalism, and transnationalism, as well as popular culture among Latinos in the United States. He has published extensively on these topics in professional journals and academic books in Puerto Rico, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Since February 2003 he writes a monthly editorial column for the newspaper El Nuevo Día.

Recent Publications

Books and Monographs

U.S. Racialization of Latinas/os: At Home and Abroad (edited volume, with José A. Cobas and Joe R. Feagin). Boulder, Co.: Paradigm Publishers (under contract).

A Transnational Migrant Crossroads: The Circulation of People and Money in Puerto Rico . San Juan: Center for the New Economy, 2007. <http://www.grupocne.org/publications/Transnational_Migrant_Crossroads.pdf>.

Puerto Ricans in Orlando and Central Florida (with Félix V. Matos-Rodríguez). Policy Report 1, no. 1. New York: Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College, CUNY, 2006. http://centropr.org/downloads/FloridaBrief(F).pdf

Un pueblo puertorriqueño , by Morris Siegel. [A Puerto Rican Town.] Introduction, revision, and translation (with María de Jesús García Moreno and Noelia Sánchez Walker). San Juan: Publicaciones Puertorriqueñas, 2005. http://www.publicacionespr.com/librospdf/0934369143.pdf

The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Cubans in Puerto Rico: Ethnic Economy and Cultural Identity (with José A. Cobas). Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.

El Barrio Gandul: Economía subterránea y migración indocumentada en Puerto Rico . [Barrio Gandul: The Underground Economy and Undocumented Migration in Puerto Rico.] Coauthored with Luisa Hernández Angueira and César A. Rey. Caracas: Nueva Sociedad, 1995.

Los cubanos en Puerto Rico: Economía étnica e identidad cultural (with José A. Cobas). Río Piedras: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1995.

Quisqueya on the Hudson: The Transnational Identity of Dominicans in Washington Heights . Dominican Research Monograph No. 1. New York: Dominican Studies Institute, City University of New York, 1994.

La vejez: Conceptos básicos y aplicaciones prácticas . [Aging: Basic Concepts and Practical Applications.] Coedited with Blanca Villamil-Forastieri. Hato Rey: Publicaciones Puertorriqueñas, 1991.

Los dominicanos en Puerto Rico: Migración en la semi-periferia . [Dominicans in Puerto Rico: Migration in the Semi-Periphery.] Edited volume. Río Piedras: Ediciones Huracán, 1990.

Recent Articles in Professional Journals and Book Chapters

“Puerto Rican, Hispanic, or Latino? Overlapping Identity Discourses among Elite Puerto Ricans in the Orlando Metropolitan Area.” In The Puerto Ricanization of Central Florida , edited by Patricia Silver and Jorge Duany (in progress).

“La nación en la diáspora: Las múltiples repercusiones de la emigración puertorriqueña a Estados Unidos.” [“The Nation in the Diaspora: The Multiple Repercussions of Puerto Rican Emigration to the United States.”] Revista de Ciencias Sociales (New Series) 17 (forthcoming). French translation published as “La nation dans la diaspora: Les multiples répercussions de l’émigration portoricaine aux États-Unis.” L’Ordinaire Latino-américain (Toulouse, France, forthcoming).

“Becoming Cuba-Rican.” In The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World, edited by Ruth Behar and Lucía Suárez. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming).

“Puerto Rican Migration to Florida: Changing Settlement Patterns, Interethnic Relations, and Cultural Identities.” In Migration, Diaspora, and the Global Caribbean Economy, edited by Keith Nurse and Michele Reis. Under consideration by the University Press of Florida.

“La diáspora boricua.” [“The Puerto Rican Diaspora.”] In Puerto Rico en el mundo, edited by Roberto Gándara Sánchez. San Juan: Editorial Tal Cual, 2007.

“Puerto Rico: ¿Sociedad del postrabajo?” [“Puerto Rico: A Post-Work Society?”] In Puerto Rico en el mundo, edited by Roberto Gándara Sánchez. San Juan: Editorial Tal Cual, 2007.

“La diáspora dominicana en Puerto Rico: Sus persistentes exclusiones por etnia, raza y género.” [“The Dominican Diaspora in Puerto Rico: Its Persistent Exclusions by Ethnicity, Race, and Gender.”] In La diversidad cultural: Reflexión crítica desde un acercamiento interdisciplinario, edited by Rosalie Rosa Soberal, pp. 363-391. San Juan: Publicaciones Puertorriqueñas, 2007.

“La migración dominicana hacia Puerto Rico: Una perspectiva transnacional.” [“Dominican Migration to Puerto Rico: A Transnational Perspective.”] In Globalización y localidad: Espacios, actores, movilidades e identidades, edited by Margarita Estrada Iguíniz and Pascal Labazée, pp. 397-430. Mexico City: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 2007.

“Racializing Ethnicity in the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean: A Comparison of Haitians in the Dominican Republic and Dominicans in Puerto Rico.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 1, no. 2 (2006): 231-248. Revised version in U.S. Racialization of Latinas/os: At Home and Abroad, edited by José A. Cobas, Jorge Duany, and Joe R. Feagin. Boulder, Co.: Paradigm Publishers (forthcoming).

“Más allá de El Barrio: La diáspora puertorriqueña hacia la Florida.” [“Beyond El Barrio: The Puerto Rican Diaspora to Florida.”] Nueva Sociedad 201 (Argentina, 2006): 73-89.

“Más allá de las balsas: Tendencias recientes y proyecciones de la migración cubana.” [“Beyond the Rafters: Current Patterns and Projections of Cuban Migration.”] In Cuba, el Caribe y el post- embargo, edited by Alejandra Liriano. Santo Domingo: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, 2005.

“Colonial Migrants: Recent Work on Puerto Ricans on and off the Island.” New West Indian Guide 79, nos. 3-4 (The Netherlands, 2005): 273-279.

“Fifty Years of Commonwealth: The Contradictions of Free Associated Statehood in Puerto Rico” (with Emilio Pantojas-García). In Extended Statehood in the Caribbean: Paradoxes of Quasi Colonialism, Local Autonomy, and Extended Statehood in the USA, French, Dutch, & British Caribbean, edited by Lammert de Jong and Dirk Krujit, pp. 21-58. Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers, 2005. Abridged version published in the Okinawan Journal of American Studies (Japan, no. 3, 2006): 7-27.

“Migration from the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean.” In In Motion: The African American Migrant Experience.

“The Rough Edges of Puerto Rican Identities: Race, Gender, and Transnationalism.” Latin American Research Review 40, no. 3 (2005): 177-190.

“¿El país de cinco pisos? La diversidad étnica en el Puerto Rico contemporáneo.” [“The Five-Storied Country? Ethnic Diversity in Contemporary Puerto Rico.”] El Sol 49, no. 2 (2005): 4-7. Reprinted in Cultural Diversity: An Asset in the New Global Work Scenario, by Milagros Guzmán, pp. 286-291. San Juan: Institute for Productivity of Puerto Rico, 2006.

“Revisiting the Cuban Exception: A Comparative Perspective on Transnational Migration from the Hispanic Caribbean to the United States.” In Cuba Transnational, edited by Damián J. Fernández, pp. 1-23. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.

“Dominicans.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, edited by Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González, pp. 520-530. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

“Race and Racialization.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, edited by Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González, pp. 535-544. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

“La migración cubana: Tendencias actuales y proyecciones.” [“Cuban Migration: Current Trends and Projections.”] Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana 36 (Spain, 2005): 164-179.

“¿Modernizar la nación o nacionalizar la modernidad? Las ciencias sociales en la Universidad de Puerto Rico durante la década de 1950.” [“Modernizing the Nation or Nationalizing Modernity? The Social Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico during the 1950s.”] In Frente a la torre: Ensayos del Centenario de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1903-2003, edited by Silvia Alvarez Curbelo and Carmen I. Raffucci, pp. 176-207. San Juan: La Editorial, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2005.

“Dominican Migration to Puerto Rico: A Transnational Perspective.” CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 17, no. 1 (2005): 242-269.

“Neither White nor Black: The Representation of Racial Identity Among Puerto Ricans on the Island and in the U.S. Mainland.” In Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos, edited by Anani Dzidzienyo and Suzanne Oboler, pp. 173-188. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

“Puerto Ricans in the United States.” In Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World, edited by Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, and Ian Skoggard, Vol. 2, pp. 1055-1068. New York: Kluwer/Plenum, 2004.

“Los países: Transnational Migration from the Dominican Republic to the United States.” In Dominican Migration: Transnational Perspectives, edited by Ernesto Sagás and Sintia Molina, pp. 29-52. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. <http://migration.ucdavis.edu/ceme/more.php?id=19_0_6_0>.

“Puerto Rico—Between the Nation and the Diaspora: Migration to and from Puerto Rico.” In Migration and Immigration: A Global View, edited by Maura I. Toro-Morn and Marixsa Alicea, pp. 177-195. Westport, Ct.: Greenwood, 2004. Short version in Desde la orilla: Hacia una nacionalidad sin desalojos, edited by Silvio Torres-Saillant, Ramona Hernández, and Blas R. Jiménez, pp. 449-468. Santo Domingo: Manatí/La Trinitaria, 2004.

“Entre la Isla y la diáspora: Los estudios sobre la migración en Puerto Rico y la Revista de Ciencias Sociales.” [“Between the Island and the Diaspora: Migration Studies in Puerto Rico and the Social Sciences Review.”] Revista de Ciencias Sociales (New Series) 12 (2003): 102-119.

“Nation, Migration, Identity: The Case of Puerto Ricans.” Latino Studies 1, no. 3 (2003): 424-444. Revised version to appear as “Nation and Migration: Rethinking Puerto Rican Identity in a Transnational Context” in None of the Above: Puerto Ricans in the Global Era, edited by Frances Negrón-Muntaner, pp. 51-63. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

“Puerto Rican, Hispanic, or Latino? Recent Debates on National and Pan-Ethnic Identities.” CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 15, no. 2 (2003): 256-267.

“La migración caribeña hacia Puerto Rico: Su impacto demográfico, socioeconómico y cultural.” [“Caribbean Migration to Puerto Rico: Its Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Cultural Impact.”] Revista del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (Second Series) 7, no. 4 (2003): 3-13. Reprinted in América Latina con razón y corazón, edited by Francisco Rodríguez, pp.167-178. Warsaw: Center for Latin American Studies, University of Poland, 2003.

“Ein nasjon i rørsle.” [“A Nation on the Move.”] LatinAmerika (Norway) 3 (September 2002): 8-9.

“Nación, migración, identidad: Sobre el transnacionalismo a propósito de Puerto Rico.” [“Nation, Migration, Identity: About Transnationalism Apropos the Case of Puerto Rico.”] Nueva Sociedad (Venezuela) 178 (2002): 56-69. Reprinted in Ir y venir: Procesos transnacionales entre América Latina y el norte, edited by Sonia Báez Hernández, Anadeli Bencomo, and Marc Zimmerman, pp. 223-234. Santiago, Chile: LACASA/Bravo y Allende, 2007. Reissued in French as “Nation, immigration et identité: repenser le colonialisme et le transnationalisme à propos du cas de Porto Rico.” In Dynamiques migratoires de la Caraïbe, edited by GÉODE Caraïbe, pp. 221-238. Paris: Karthala, 2007.

“Irse pa’ fuera: The Mobile Livelihoods of Circular Migrants between Puerto Rico and the United States.” In Work and Migration: Life and Livelihoods in a Globalizing World, edited by Ninna Nyberg Sørensen and Karen Fog Olwig, pp. 161-183. London: Routledge, 2002. Reprinted as “Mobile Livelihoods: The Sociocultural Practices of Circular Migrants between Puerto Rico and the United States.” International Migration Review 36, no. 2 (2002): 355-388. Spanish version: “‘Irse pa’ fuera’: Los modos de vida móviles de los migrantes circulares entre Puerto Rico y los Estados Unidos.” Temas: Cultura, Ideología, Sociedad (Cuba) 26 (2001): 39-49.

“Portraying the Other: Puerto Rican Images in Two American Photographic Collections.” Discourse 23, no. 1 (2001): 319-353.

“Redes, remesas y paladares: La diáspora cubana desde una perspectiva transnacional.” [“Networks, Remittances, and Small Family Restaurants: The Cuban Diaspora from a Transnational Perspective.”] Nueva Sociedad (Venezuela) 174 (2001): 40-51. Translated and reprinted in Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced, edited by Andrea O’Reilly Herrera, pp. 161-175. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.

“Reconstructing Cubanness: Changing Discourses of National Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora during the Twentieth Century.” In Cuba, The Elusive Nation: Interpretations of National Identity, edited by Damián J. Fernández and Madeline Cámara Betancourt, pp. 17-42. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000.

“Exiliados, indocumentados y diásporas: Las migraciones contemporáneas en Puerto Rico.” [“Exiles, Undocumented Migrants, and Diasporas: Contemporary Migrations in Puerto Rico.”] Del Caribe (Cuba) 31 (2000): 13-20.

“Nation on the Move: The Construction of Cultural Identities in Puerto Rico and the Diaspora.” American Ethnologist 27, no. 1 (2000): 5-30.

“The Fear of Illegal Aliens: Caribbean Migration as a National and Regional Security Threat.” In Security in the Caribbean Basin: The Challenge of Regional Cooperation, edited by Joseph S. Tulchin and Ralph H. Espach, pp. 97-118. Boulder: Lynn Rienner, 2000.