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| Ph.D. | Northwestern University, Sociology | 1975 |
| BA | Harvard College, Government | 1963 |
Teaching appointments
Adjunct lecturer
| New York University, Department
of Politics Urban and Labor Affairs, Wayne State University New School for Social Research New York University, Continuing Education Cornell University Labor Liberal Arts Boricua College Empire State Labor College Montclair State College Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras |
2000 1996 1992, 1980 1985-89 1982-84 1982 1980-83 1980-81 1966-67 |
Full-time, sociology
| St. John's University/College of
St. Benedict, MN Ohio Wesleyan University University of Illinois at Chicago Circle |
1977-79 1976-77 1970-75 |
Other academic appointments
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City University of New York
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1997-present |
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Wayne State University, Detroit
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1995-96 |
Other professional appointments
| New York City Commission
on Human Rights: Director of Communications for the 100 + member agency that enforces the City's Human Rights Law |
1994-95 |
| Abrapalabra Translations: Translator and owner. American Federation of Arts, Americas Society, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, The Smithsonian Institution, etc. |
1985-94 |
| Freelance writer and
editor - Guest editor, NACLA Report on the Americas, Feb. 1991 and Nov.-Dec. 1989 - Journalist-in-residence, Roosevelt High School, Bronx, NY, 1988-89 - Associate editor, Cuba Update, Center for Cuban Studies, New York, 1981-83 - Contributing editor, Between the Lines, New York local, National Writers Union 1981 - Books,and articles. See Publications. |
1981-present |
| Hispanic Monitor: Executive editor, monthly newsletter | 1982-83 |
| Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad de Puerto Rico: Research supervisor, Social Change in Puerto Rico | 1966-67 |
| Casa Central settlement house, Chicago: Community organizer, Puerto Rican neighborhood on near north side (Division Street) | 1965 |
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Publications:Books | Chapters | Monographs | Articles | FictionBooksHispanic Nation: Culture, Politics and the Constructing of Identity. New York: Birch Lane Press, 1996; University of Arizona Press, 1997 (paperback). Reviews: Washington Post, Booklist, The Latino Review of Books, and others. University of Arizona Press Best Seller list. Provided title and framework for 6-program nationwide radio series, "Hispanic Nation: Made in the U.S.A.," October 1998. The Land and People of Venezuela. New York: HarperCollins. 1991. Selection of the New York Public Library, Books for the Teenage. The Land and People of Argentina. New York: J. B. Lippincott (HarperCollins), 1990. Selected for list of Notable Books of 1990 by the Children's Book Council. Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Critical Commentary. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. Welcome to My Contri. New York: Hudson View Press, 1988, reissued by Lintel, 1991. Collection of short stories and novel excerpts. Reviews: The New York Times Book Review, In These Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, etc. Working-Class Émigrés from Cuba. Palo Alto: R&E Research Publications, 1979. co-author, Report of the Chicago Commission of Inquiry to Save Lives in Chile. Chicago, 1974. Book chaptersRace and Class In Contemporary Cuba. In Cuban Communism edited by Irving Louis Horowitz. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1981 Race, sex and revolution in Cuba. In Interracial Marriage, edited by I. R. Stuart and L. E. Abt. New York: Grossman, 1973 Honor, Shame and Women's Liberation in Cuba: The Views of Working-Class Émigré Men. Female and Male in Latin America, edited by Ann Pescatello. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973 MonographsHispanic Organizers and Business Agents in the New York Apparel Industries. New York Research Program in Inter-American Affairs, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University (Occasional Paper No. 43), 1984 Organizing the New Immigrants: The Hispanic Trade Unionists' Perspective. New York Research Program in Inter-American Affairs, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University (Occasional Paper No. 40), 1983 Liberty and People: Ideological Analysis of the Political Writings of Simón Bolívar. Prepared for the Primera Bienal Internacional de Ensayo "Simón Bolívar" (Caracas), 1983 TopArticles, essays and reviews"About to Burst Free." Review of James D. Cockcroft, Mexico's Hope: An Encounter with Politics and History. In Monthly Review, vol 4, no. 52 (September 2000). Moonbeams and Rectangles. Linnaean Street, Summer 2000 Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, by Jonathan Kozol. Solidarity (rev), Jan/Feb 1996 For labor & its allies: Stakes are high in six-month strike of two Detroit newspapers. Between the Lines, February 1996 Cities of the Americas in the Information Age: Power from the Barrel of a Videocam. Response to Thomas Angotti, Christine Boyer and Saskia Sassen. Trans Telesymposium, December 2000 Languages Don't Bind People. Newsday, December 18, 1995 Braving a New World: How Writers Use the Emerging Technology. American Writer, fall 1994 Prime time: Latin American 'soaps' strike back. New Internationalist, January 1992 Mermaids and Other Fetishes: Images of Latin America. Translating Latin America: Culture as Text. Translation Perspectives VI: 135-144 (Revision of 1989 essay of same title, below), 1991 Marketing soaps: Telenovelas slip into prime time. Development Forum, September-October 1991 Small Triumphs: A Week in the Slums of Lima. CARE Annual Report, 1990 A hardware store in barrio José Félix Rivas (micro-entrepreneurs in Caracas). Development Forum, July-August 1990 Spirited Córdoba's Riches: Argentina's second city is a repository of colonial architecture. The New York Times (Travel Section), Sunday, March 11, 1990 Argentina: Putting the 'Perón' Back In (campaign of Carlos Saúl Menem). NACLA Report on the Americas, Nov/Dec 1989 Mermaids and Other Fetishes: Images of Latin America. Central Park 15, spring 1989 The Fool's Progress, by Edward Abbey. (rev) The Village Voice Literary Supplement, Jan. 31, 1989 The Portable Lower East Side: Latin Americans in NYC. (rev) The Village Voice Literary Supplement, October 1988 Fiction and Politics: Interview with Ernesto Sabato. Threepenny Review, winter 1988 Hispanic Communities in the United States (review essay), Latin American Research Review xxiii, 3 (fall 1988): 227-237 Come Sunday, by Bradford Morrow. The Village Voice (rev), July 5, 1988 Imagining Argentina, by Lawrence Thornton. Keeping the spirits of resistance alive. In These Times (rev), March 16, 1988 The Stars at Noon, by Denis Johnson. In These Times, February 25-March, 1987 Never again? Argentina reconstructs. The Nation, May 24, 1986 Hispanic attitudes will alter politics. In These Times, October 9-15, 1985 Research Notes (monthly column, reviews of books and studies on Hispanics) Hispanic Monitor, Jan 1984- Apr 1985 Improper Conduct (film). Cuba Times (rev), June 1984 Havana: U.S. minorities meet far from home, Hispanic Monitor, December 1984 Philadelphia: journalists and media analysts critique coverage of Latin America, Hispanic Monitor, November 1984 Lawrence, Mass.: press, city blamed for ethnic tensions, Hispanic Monitor, October 1984 Differences overshadow agreements among Hispanic delegates, Hispanic Monitor, September 1984 New York: frustrations of Hispanic garment unionists, Hispanic Monitor, September 1984 From Immigrant Labor to Transnational Working Class. Contemporary Sociology (rev), June1984 The nationalist roots of Mexican-American politics, Hispanic Monitor, May 1984 "Model" Costa Rica: class war in the Latin Switzerland. The Nation, January 28, 1984: 94-95 Lucha y decepción del Libertador (on Simón Bolívar), Areíto, December 1983:22-25 The Lone Ranger (on Edén Pastora, Nicaragua), The Nation, November 26, 1983: 525 Literacy race. (Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba) The Nation, May 7, 1983: 562 U.S.-Cuban relations: a chronology of important events. Cuba Update, October 1982 Criminal and civil law in Cuba: an introduction. Cuba Update, March 1982 Men of Wajda (review essay on films Man of Iron and Man of Marble, by Andrzej Wajda), Film Criticism, fall 1981 Inferior status The Nation, September 5, 1981 The many faces of Eva (biographies of Eva Perón). In These Times, Aug. 27-Sep. 2, 1981 "Man of Marble," film directed by Andrzej Wajda. In These Times, April 1-7, 1981 (review) The U.S. press and the Cuban exodus. Cuba Update, fall 1980 The Technological Conscience, by Manfred Stanley (review). Contemporary Sociology 1980 Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives, ed. Asunción Lavrin. Américas, v. 32, n. 3, March 1980 (review) Discovery: Renzo de Felice on Fascism. Theory & Society January 1978 (review) The Yugoslavs, by Dusko Doder. Minneapolis Tribune, Sunday, July 23, 1978 (review) Hidden Terrors, by J. Langguth. Minneapolis Tribune, Sunday, June 25, 1978 (review) Cuban Workers in Exile. TransAction, 8, 11, September 1971 El cambio social y las estructuras políticas: hacia un modelo teórico. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 1967 An Industrial Classification for Developing Economies: Review of the Literature on 'Situs'. Agora 1965 Forging the Conscience of a Race. Comment (Harvard), May 1962 TopFiction & vignettesSee also book, Welcome to My ContriCourbet And The Red Virgin (April 1871): A short story in the form of a screenplay, in The Copperfield Review, Summer 2001 (click on "Fiction") Melliflua and the Fauns, Web del Sol's In Posse, Spring 2001 -- A fable about how a pre-teen girl solves her problems with some hairy, horny boys; inspired by a statue in the Gabinetto Segreto ("Secret Cabinet") of the Archaeological Museum in Naples. Bravo, Scrittore! in Linnaean Street, Spring 2001 -- The unfocused enthusiasm of a Neapolitan co-ed boosts a writer's spirits. A lua no ceu da baía, in Exquisite Corpse, Summer 2000 -- A gigantic Moon over Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, raises spirits and other things on a festive night. Zen Garden. The Threepenny Review, spring 1999 On a Page from Rilke. Looking Glass 1994 The Fall of Randall Smullyan. Vigil Anti No. 4, Vigil 9, 1993 Tidbinbilla. Central Park, spring 1992 Dancing with Lucha and The Lair, in Yellow Silk: Erotic Arts and Letters. New York: Harmony Books, 1990; originally published in Yellow Silk #25, winter 1987 Welcome to My Contri. Fiction International, fall 1988 Popo. Central Park, spring 1988 Valencia Afternoon. West Wind Review, spring 1987 Incident on Mother's Day. Central Park, fall 1986 Here's One Union That's Going All the Way. Labor Notes, June 19, 1980 |
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Lectures and readings, radio and TV appearancesThe World radio program (BBC and Public Radio International), interview by Boris Maksimov on Hispanic identity, broadcast February 23, 1999. Hispanic Nation - Made in the USA. Featured author in series of six programs, 30 minutes each, produced by MediaWorks (Bethesda, MD) and broadcast nationwide, Hispanic Heritage Month, September-October 1998. Cartographers of the Imagination: The Transcultural Text in America. CUNY English Forum, April 3, 1998. Migrants, Electronics and Public Education. Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, March 20, 1998. Concordia College, Moorhead MN. Series of lectures, fora and conversations on The Hispanic Nation in the US. .January 18-20, 1997. Good Day New York, Fox Television. Interview on Hispanic Nation, November 26, 1996 "Hispanolandia" and the Strategy of Ethnicity. Michigan State University Identity Festival. November 15, 1996. Borders Bookstore, Ann Arbor MI. Presentation and signing of Hispanic Nation, November 12, 1996 Librería El Yunque, Chicago. Community discussion of Hispanic Nation, November 9, 1996 WBAI-FM, New York, interview by Mario Murillo on Hispanic Nation, November 6, 1996 Museo del Barrio, New York. Presentation and reception for Hispanic Nation, November 2, 1996 Línea Informativa -X 620 AM (NYC), interview, October 27, 1996 "Unimundo'"and Hispanic Consciousness. University of Michigan Latino Law Students Association Symposium, October 12, 1996. KXTQFM Lubbock, phone interview by Ram Rodríguez & Jackie Cisneros, on Hispanic Nation, September 16, 1996 UNAM: 7º Congreso Internacional de Culturas Latinas en Estados Unidos, 7-11 de agosto de 1996, Taxco: The Umbilical Myth: Latinos in N. America. Panel on Hispanic Nation, August 9, 1996 The Hispanic Nation of the United States: Prospects and Consequences. California American Studies Association, Occidental College, April 27, 1996. Panel: Interracial Dialogue: The Challenges to Bridging Gaps. Program on Mediating Theory and Democratic Systems, College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University, April 16, 1996. Hispanic Nation: The Creation of a Latino Identity in the United States. Jersey City State College, February 24, 1993. Imposing Fictions on Reality: Inventing America. New York City Social Studies Supervisors Association, November 12, 1992. Inventing America, Hispanic Nation, and 500 Years of Soap Opera. St. John's University/College of St. Benedict, Collegeville MN, February 1992. Inventing America. University of Wisconsin (Madison), February 1992. The Legacy of Columbus: Inventing America. State University of New York at Old Westbury, Current Issues Lecture Series, October 9, 1991. Inventing America. State University of New York at Stony Brook, University Distinguished Lecture Series, October 2, 1991. 500 Years of Soap Opera, Seminar, The Humanities Institute, October 2, 1991. Approaches to the Quincentenary. Latin American Studies Association, Washington DC, April 4, 1991. Mermaids and Other Fetishes: Images of Latin America. Translating Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Culture as Text, SUNY-Binghamton, NY, April 1990. Third World Struggles in the Heart of the Metropolis: Hispanic Union Activists in New York City. Conference on Third World Trade Unionism, Ottawa, October 25-27, 1984. Hispanic Trade Unionists in the New York Garment Trade. Conference of the New York Research Program in Inter-American Affairs, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University, June 1984. Labor-Community Struggles against the Transnationals: Agro-Industry in Latin America. Eastern Marxist Scholars Conference, New York (October) 1984. Organizer and chair, panel on "The State as the Institutional Nexus for Labor Rebellion." Labor Studies Section, Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York (August) 1984. Transnationals and Labor in Latin America. Marxist Union Conference, New York, June 1980. People's Power Assemblies in Cuba. National Conference on Cuba, New York (November) 1980. Organizer and chair, panel:" People's Power in Capitalist and Socialist Societies." Paper, Origin and Development of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution in Cuba. Society for the Study of Social Problems, Boston, August 1979. Local Government in Revolutionary Cuba. Roundtable, American Sociological Association, Boston, August 1979. Teaching Sociology in a Catholic University. Sociologists of Minnesota, St. Paul, 1978. Male Reactions to Changes in Women's Roles in Cuba. American Sociological Association, New Orleans, September 1972. Honor, Shame and Women's Liberation in Cuba. Latin American Studies Association, Austin, February 1972. El cambio social y las estructuras políticas: hacia un modelo teórico. Faculty seminar series, School of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras 1967. LanguagesEspañol — Vea Las cosas buenas de Andalucía Français — Quelle dommage! Tants d'années de lycée, et toujours on gâche. On le lit, on le balbutie, mais ça, c'est à peu près tout. Deutsch — In der Schreibmaschine, ein weißes, leeres Blatt das mich verwundet; ich starre darauf. - Horst Bienek, 1991. Fellowships and commissioned researchBuell Center, Columbia University: Hispanic Traditions in American Architecture and Urbanism, 1988 New York Research Program in Inter-American Affairs, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University, Research Fellowship: Hispanic Trade Unionists in New York City, 1983-84 Holland America Cruises, report on political and social conditions in the Caribbean, 1981-83 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Grant: Revolutionary Self-Government in Cuba, 1979 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for College Teachers: Alvin W. Gouldner, Intellectuals and 20th Century Revolution. Washington University, St. Louis, 1977
Professional association membershipsAuthors Guild, Latin American Studies Association, National Writers Union (UAW Local 1981) Free JavaScripts provided |