Jorge Duany, Ph.D.
Email: jduany@gmail.com

Dr. Jorge Duany is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. He previously served as Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the journal Revista de Ciencias Sociales at UPR. He has held visiting teaching and research appointments at several U.S. universities, including Harvard, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and City University of New York. He earned his Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, with a concentration 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. He has published extensively on migration, ethnicity, race, nationalism, and transnationalism in the Caribbean and the United States. His latest book is Blurred Borders: Transnational Migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States (forthcoming in 2011). He is the coeditor of Puerto Rican Florida (2010) and How the United States Racializes Latinos: White Hegemony and Its Consequences (2009). He previously published La nación en vaivén: Identidad, migración y cultura popular en Puerto Rico (2010) and The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States (2002). He is the coauthor of Puerto Ricans in Orlando and Central Florida (2006), Cubans in Puerto Rico: Ethnic Economy and Cultural Identity (1997), and El Barrio Gandul: Economía subterránea y migración indocumentada en Puerto Rico (1995). He is also the author of Quisqueya on the Hudson: The Transnational Identity of Dominicans in Washington Heights (1994/2008). Since February 2003, he writes a monthly editorial column for the newspaper El Nuevo Día.

Selected Publications

Books and Monographs

Blurred Borders: Transnational Migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Puerto Rican Florida (edited with Patricia Silver). Special Issue of CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 22, no. 1 (2010).

La nación en vaivén: Identidad, migración y cultura popular en Puerto Rico. [Nation on the Move: Identity, Migration, and Popular Culture in Puerto Rico.] San Juan: Callejón, 2010.

How the United States Racializes Latinos: White Hegemony and Its Consequences (edited with José A. Cobas and Joe R. Feagin). Boulder, Co.: Paradigm Publishers, 2009.

A Transnational Migrant Crossroads: The Circulation of People and Money in Puerto Rico. San Juan: Center for the New Economy, 2007.

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.

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. Introductory chapter (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. Introductory chapter (PDF)

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

El Barrio Gandul: Economía subterránea y migración indocumentada en Puerto Rico (with Luisa Hernández Angueira and César A. Rey). [Barrio Gandul: The Underground Economy and Undocumented Migration in Puerto Rico.] 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. Second edition, with a new preface, 2008.

La vejez: Conceptos básicos y aplicaciones prácticas (edited with Blanca Villamil-Forastieri). [Aging: Basic Concepts and Practical Applications.] Hato Rey, P.R.: Publicaciones Puertorriqueñas, 1991. Second edition, 1994.

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

Recent Articles in Professional Journals

“Anthropology in a Postcolonial Colony: Helen I. Safa’s Contribution to Puerto Rican Ethnography.” Caribbean Studies 38, no. 2 (2010, forthcoming).

“A Transnational Colonial Migration: Puerto Rico’s Farm Worker Program.” New West Indian Guide 84, nos. 3-4 (The Netherlands, 2010): 225-251.

“Las diásporas de las Antillas hispánicas: Una comparación transnacional.” [“The Hispanic Caribbean Diasporas: A Transnational Comparison.”] Revista del CESLA (Poland) 13, no. 1 (2010): 219-240.

“The ‘Puerto Ricanization’ of Florida: Historical Background and Current Status. Introduction” (with Patricia Silver). In Puerto Rican Florida, edited with Patricia Silver. Thematic issue of CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 22, no. 1 (2010): 4-31.

“The Orlando Ricans: Overlapping Identity Discourses among Middle-Class Puerto Rican Immigrants.” In Puerto Rican Florida, edited with Patricia Silver. Thematic issue of CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 22, no. 1 (2010): 84-115.

“To Send or Not to Send: Migrant Remittances in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico.” In Continental Divides: International Migration in the Americas, edited by Katharine M. Donato, Jonathan Hiskey, Jorge Durand, and Douglas S. Massey. Special issue of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 630, no. 1 (2010): 205-223.

“Cómo representar a los nuevos sujetos colonizados: John Alden Mason y los comienzos de la antropología estadounidense en Puerto Rico.” [“Representing Newly Colonized Subjects: John Alden Mason and the Beginnings of U.S. Anthropology in Puerto Rico.”] La Torre: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (Third Series) 14, nos. 53-54 (2009): 1-21.

“Enviar o no enviar migradólares: Migración y remesas en Puerto Rico, República Dominicana y México.” [“To Send or Not to Send Migradollars: Migration and Remittances in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico.”] Camino Real (Spain) 1, no. 1 (2009): 27-52. 

“Diasporic Dreams: Documenting Caribbean Migrations.” Caribbean Studies 36, no. 1 (2008): 184-195.

“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 (2007): 118-153. French translation: “La nation dans la diaspora: Les multiples répercussions de l’émigration portoricaine aux États-Unis.” L’Ordinaire Latino-américain (France) nos. 208-209 (2007-2008): 63-92. Abridged and updated English version in Governance in the Non-Independent Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century, edited by Peter Clegg and Emilio Pantojas-García, pp. 182-202. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 2009.

“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. Abridged version in How the United States Racializes Latinos: White Hegemony and Its Consequences, edited by José A. Cobas, Jorge Duany, and Joe R. Feagin, pp. 214-227. Boulder, Co.: Paradigm Publishers, 2009.

“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.

“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.

“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.

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

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

Recent Book Chapters

“Puerto Ricans, Racial Identity and Self-Determination of.” In Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, edited by Patrick L. Mason. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Reference, forthcoming.

“Puerto Rico, Modern Era Migration.” In Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, edited by Immanuel Ness. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming.

“Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Populism, Nationalism, and Cubanía;” “Diasporas: Introduction, Why Diaspora?” and “Diasporas: Cubans Abroad, Post-1959.” In Cuba: People, Culture, History, edited by Alan West-Durán. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, forthcoming.

“Población y migración desde 1815 hasta la actualidad.” [“Population and Migration from 1815 to the Present.”] In Historia de Puerto Rico, edited by Luis González Vales. Madrid: Ediciones Doce Calles, forthcoming.

“The Puerto Rican Diaspora to the United States: A Postcolonial Migration?” In Postcolonial Immigration and Identity Formation in Europe since 1945: Towards a Comparative Perspective, edited by Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen, and Gert Oostindie. London: Berghahn, forthcoming.

“Foreword: The Visual Representation of Diasporic Identities.” In The Writing on the Wall (Soul): Puerto Rican Murals and Social Representations in New York City, byElsa B. Cardalda, pp. 11-16. San Juan: Publicaciones Puertorriqueñas, 2009.

“La diáspora cubana desde una perspectiva transnacional.” [“The Cuban Diaspora from a Transnational Perspective.”] In Cuba 2009: Reflexiones en torno a los 50 años de la revolución de Castro, edited by Andrzej Dembicz, pp. 189-207. Warsaw: Center for Latin American Studies, University of Warsaw, 2009. Reproduced by Otrolunes: Revista Hispanoamericana de Cultura 3, no. 8 (2009).

“Introduction: Racializing Latinos—Historical Background and Current Forms” (with José A. Cobas and Joe R. Feagin). In How the United States Racializes Latinos: White Hegemony and Its Consequences, edited by José A. Cobas, Jorge Duany, and Joe R. Feagin, pp. 1-15. Boulder, Co.: Paradigm Publishers, 2009.

“Becoming Cuba-Rican.” In The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World,edited by Ruth Behar and Lucía M. Suárez, pp. 197-208. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

“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.

“Población y sociedad: Panorama general.” [“Population and Society: A Panoramic View.”] In Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico, edited by Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, 2007.

“Migración extranjera hacia Puerto Rico.” [“Foreign Migration to Puerto Rico.”] In Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico, edited by Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, 2007.

“Inmigración de cubanos y dominicanos.” [“Immigration of Cubans and Dominicans.”] In Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico, edited by Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, 2007.

“La diáspora boricua.” [“The Puerto Rican Diaspora.”] In Puerto Rico en el mundo, edited by Roberto Gándara Sánchez, pp. 9-10. English translation, p. 115. San Juan: Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades/Centro de Investigación y Política Pública, 2007. Reproduced by Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico, edited by Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, 2007.

“Puerto Rico: ¿Sociedad del postrabajo?” [“Puerto Rico: A Post-Work Society?”] In Puerto Rico en el mundo, edited by Roberto Gándara Sánchez, pp. 22-24. English translation, pp. 119-120. San Juan: Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades/Centro de Investigación y Política Pública, 2007. Reproduced by Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico, edited by Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, 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.

“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 in the Okinawan Journal of American Studies (Japan, no. 3, 2006): 7-27.

“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 de la Cruz, pp. 405-432. Santo Domingo: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, 2005.
                                       
“Migration from the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean.” In In Motion: The African-American Migrant Experience,edited by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2005.

“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.

“Prólogo.” In Arte social crítico, sentido y preocupación última: Reflexiones teóricas y metodológicas sobre ciencias humanas e interpretación del fenómeno religioso-cultural en la sociedad global contemporánea, by Héctor López Sierra, pp. 1-8. Caguas, P.R.: Tamarind Hill Press, 2005. Second edition. San Juan: Editorial Situm, 2007.

“Dominicans in Puerto Rico: A Look at Barrio Gandul,” “Dominicans in New York: Quisqueya on the Hudson,” and “Image and Identity.” In Caribbean Connections: The Dominican Republic,edited by Anne Gallin, Ruth Glasser, Jocelyn Santana, with Patricia R. Pessar, pp. 81-87, 89-94, and 175-176. Washington, D.C.: Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale University, and Teaching for Change, 2005. Spanish version: “Los dominicanos en Puerto Rico: Una mirada al Barrio Gandul” and “Los dominicanos en Nueva York: Quisqueya en el Hudson.” In Conexiones caribeñas: La República Dominicana, edited by Anne Gallin, Ruth Glasser, Jocelyn Santana, with Patricia R. Pessar, pp. 5-16. Washington, D.C.: Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale University, and Teaching for Change, 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.

“¿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 Álvarez Curbelo and Carmen I. Raffucci, pp. 176-207. San Juan: La Editorial, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2005.

“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.