Jorge L. Giovannetti Ph.D.
Jorge L. Giovannetti (PhD, University of North London, U.K., 2002) is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Puerto Rico, where he is also affiliated to the Institute of Caribbean Studies, serving as Book Review Editor of the journal Caribbean Studies. A former British Academy Scholar, he has held visiting appointments at London Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom and Princeton University in the United States.
His field of interest is the historical sociology of the Caribbean and he has written on popular music in Jamaica and Puerto Rico and intra-Caribbean migration to Cuba and the Dominican Republic, with focus on issues of race, ethnicity, identity, and nationalism. More recently he has made research incursions into the sociology of slavery, the public representation of the slave past, and the intellectual history of anthropology during and after the Second World War. He is also interested in the sociology of fear and racial and ethnic violence. In recent years, he has made consistent efforts to intervene publicly on issues of social, cultural, and political significance through newspaper columns in Puerto Rico Daily Sun, El Nuevo Día, Claridad, and Diálogo.
Giovannetti is currently revising a book manuscript tentatively entitled “Black British Subjects in Cuba” for its publication and working on a new collaborative project on the anthropology of the Caribbean after the Second World War.
Courses Taught
SOCI 3245: Principles of Sociology
SOCI 4045: Slavery and Race Relations in the Caribbean
SOCI 4026: Sociology of racism and social violence
SOCI 6205: Graduate Independent Studies on Global Hip Hop and 19th Century Racial Theory
SOCI 6076: Historical Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (double codification: HIST 6076)
ANTR 4195: Undergraduate Independent Studies: Ethnography of Dance
Book
2001 Sonidos de condena: Sociabilidad, historia y política en la música reggae de Jamaica. México: Siglo XXI Editores.
Editorial Work
2008 "Watching the Caribbean: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Caribbean Cinema," (Part II) Caribbean Studies (Special Section), 36: 2 (July-December): 217-287.
2008 "Watching the Caribbean: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Caribbean Cinema," (Part I) Caribbean Studies (Special Section), 36: 1 (January-June): 177-240.
2003 "Garveyism and the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Hispanic Caribbean." (co-edited with Reinaldo L. Román) Caribbean Studies (Special Issue), 31: 1 (January-July): 1-259.
Selected Academic Articles
2009 "Subverting the Master’s Narrative: Public Histories of Slavery in Plantation America," International Labor and Working-Class History (Cambridge University Press), thematic issue on "Labor History and Public History," eds. Thomas Klubock and Paulo Fontes, 76 (Fall): 105-126.
2009 "Empire beyond the Imperial Domain: British Colonial Encounters in Cuba," British Academy Review, 12 (January): 21-24.
2009 "Hard Work with the ‘Mare Magnum’ of the Past: Nineteenth-Century Cuban History and the Miscelánea de Expedientes Collection," (with Camillia Cowling), Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos (University of Pittsburgh Press), ed. Louis A. Pérez Jr., 39: 60-84.
2007 "Música caribeña y narrativa histórica: Reggae, rap y reggaetón," Temas: Cultura, ideología, y sociedad, 52 (October-December): 34-44.
2007 "Impensar la interdisciplinariedad en la Universidad de Puerto Rico: Limitaciones de una propuesta," Apuesta: Revista Alternativa de política y cultura, 2 (March): 29-34.
2006 "Grounds of Race: Slavery, Racism, and the Plantation in the Caribbean," Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 1: 1 (April): 5-36.
2006 "Black British Caribbean Migrants in Cuba: Resistance, Opposition, and Strategic Identity in the Early Twentieth Century," in Regional Footprints: The Travels and Travails of Early Caribbean Migrants, eds. Annette Insanally, Mark Clifford, Sean Sheriff. Kingston: Latin American-Caribbean Centre, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Research, funded by the Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO, pp. 103-120
2006 "The Elusive Organisation of ‘Identity’: Race, Religion, and Empire among Caribbean Migrants in Cuba," Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (Indiana University Press), Special Issue: “Crossing Borders,” eds. Charles V. Carnegie and Samuel Martínez, 19 (February): 1-27.
2005 "Jamaican Reggae and the Articulation of Social and Historical Consciousness in Musical Discourse," in Contemporary Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a Global Context, eds. Franklin W. Knight and Teresita Martínez Vergne. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 211-232.
2004 "El legado de Harry Hoetink: Relaciones raciales y estudios caribeños (In Memoriam)," Revista Mexicana del Caribe, 17 (2004): 209-238.
2003 "Garveyismo y racismo en el Caribe: El caso de la población cocola en la República Dominicana," (with Humberto García Muñiz) Caribbean Studies, 30: 1 (January-June): 139-211.
2003 "Libertad, raza, y nación en Cuba: Llenando espacios, rompiendo silencios, y tocando los sentidos de la historiografía," Revista Brasileira do Caribe, 4: 7 (July-December): 9-25.
2003 "Caribbean Immigration," and "Rumba Complex," in Encyclopedia of Cuba: People, History Culture, eds. Luis Martínez-Fernández, D. H. Figueredo, Louis A. Pérez Jr., Luis González, 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 141-142, 433-434.
2003 "Popular Music and Culture in Puerto Rico: Jamaican and Rap Music as Cross-Cultural Symbols," in Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America, eds. Frances R. Aparicio and Cándida Jáquez, with María Elena Cepeda. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 81-98.
2002 "Historia visual y etnohistoria en Cuba: Inmigración antillana e identidad en Los Hijos de Baraguá," Caribbean Studies, 30: 2 (July-December): 216-252.
1998 "Reggae’s Different Routes," Plantation Society in the Americas, 5: 2-3 (Fall): 355-362.
1998 "Evolución social, identidades y las políticas del reggae en Jamaica," Revista de Ciencias Sociales/Nueva Época, 4 (January): 174-199.
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