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Research and teaching interests have focused on the African Diaspora, the Americas, and the broader Caribbean (emphasis on the Hispanic Antilles) within the capitalist world-system. His first book was "Subject People" and Colonial Discourses: Economic Transformation and Social Disorder in Puerto Rico, 1898-1947 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994), is currently finishing a second book tentatively titled Global Racial Regimes in the Historical Long-Term: Social Regulation in the Spanish Atlantic, 1650-1870, while working on a third book tentatively titled Race-Making in World-Historical Perspective: Puerto Ricans at the Crossroads of Empire, 1870s-1940s. He has also published numerous book chapters and journal articles, as well as taught courses, that address: the political economy of global labor formation (in particular, racially-culturally depreciated laboring populations), the multiple social resistances to hegemonic forms of domination and exploitation (especially, the criminal justice system), worldwide structures of meaning and the conceptual-methodological frameworks used to study such structures, all this increasingly from long-term/ large-scale perspectives.

Recent Courses:

Theoretical Studies
Race, Crime, and Punishment
Global Post-Emancipation Struggles
Law and Society

Recent Publications:

"American Penal Forms and Colonial-Spanish Custodial-Regulatory Practices in Fin-de-Siecle Puerto Rico", Alfred McCoy and Francisco Scarano, eds., Transitions and Transformations in the U.S. Imperial State: The Search for a New Synthesis (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009), 87-94.

"The Imagined Republic of Puerto Rican Populism in World-Historical Context: The Poetics of Plantation Fantasies and the Petit-Coloniality of Criollo Blanchitude, 1914-1948," Jerome Branche, ed., Race, Colonialism, and Social Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008), 59-90.

"'Our Race Today [Is] the Only Hope for the World': An African Spaniard as Chieftain of the Struggle Against 'Sugar Slavery' in Puerto Rico, 1926-1934," Caribbean Studies, vol. 35, no.1 (January-June, 2007): 107-140.

"'Bloody Legislations,' 'Entombment,' and Race Making in the Spanish Atlantic: Differentiated Spaces of General(ized) Confinement in Spain and Puerto Rico, 1750-1840," Radical History Review, no. 96 (Fall, 2006): 33-57.

"Coloniality and Wayward Populations in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico: Local Limits to the Social Regulation of Global [Racialized] Labor," in Jean-Marie Fecteau and Janice Harvey (eds), La regulation sociale entre l'acteur et l'institution. Pour une problematique historique de l'interaction / Agency and Institutions in Social Regulation: Towards an Historical Understanding of Their Interaction (Montreal: Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, 2005), 266-285.

"Racially subordinate labour within global contexts: Robinson and Hopkins re-examined," Race and Class, vol.47, no.2 (October-December, 2005): 54-70.

"World-Historical Ties Among 'Spontaneous' Slave Rebellions in the Atlantic during the 18th and 19th Centuries," Review, vol. XXVIII, no.1, 2005: 51-83.

"Colonialidad, trabajo sexualmente racializado y nuevos circuitos migratorios," in Palmira Rios and Idsa Alegria, eds., Contrapunto de genero y raza en Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras: Universidad de Puerto Rico- Centro de Investigaciones Sociales/Instituto de Estudios sobre Razay Etnicidad, 2005).

"Social Polarization and Colonized Labor: Puerto Ricans in the United States, 1945-2000," co-authored with Gladys M. Jimenez-Munoz, David Gutierrez, ed., The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States, 1960 to the Present (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 62-149.

"Some Notes on 'Race,' Coloniality, and the Question of History Among Puerto Ricans" in Carole Boyce-Davies, ed., Decolonizing the Academy: Diaspora Theory and African-New World Studies (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003), 217-234.

"'Race,' Labor, 'Women's Proper Place,' and the Birth of Nations: Notes on Historicizing the Coloniality of Power," New Centennial Review, vol.3, no.3 (Fall, 2003): 47-69.

"Reconceptualizing Racially-Depreciated Labor: Puerto Ricans in the Current Phase of Globalization" in Wilma Dunaway, ed., Emerging Issues in the 21st Century World-System. Volume I: Crises and Resistance in the 21st Century World-System (Greenwood Press, 2003): 103-119.

"The Sexual Appeal of Racial Differences: U.S. Travel Writing and Anxious American-ness in Turn-of-the-Century Puerto Rico" in Reynolds Scott-Childress, ed., Race and the Invention of Modern American Nationalism (Garland Press, 1999), 127-148.

"Still Longing for the Old Plantation: The Visual Parodies and Racial National Imaginary of U.S. Overseas Expansionism, 1898-1903." American Studies International, Vol. 38, No. 3 (October 1999): 18-43.

"Higher Womanhood Among the Lower Races: Julia McNair Henry and the Burdens of 1898." Radical History Review, No. 97 (Winter 1999): 47-73.

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