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Percy C. Hintzen, Ph.D.
Professor, African American Studies
University of California, Berkeley
654 Barrows Hall
(510) 356-3804
Office Hours:Fall 2009 Tuesdays 11:30–1:30 pm
phintzen@berkeley.edu
Ph.D. Comparative Political Sociology, Yale University (1981) TEACHING SUBJECT AREAS Postcolonial Studies, Caribbean Political Economy, Diaspora Studies, Critical Methodology, Comparative Race and Ethnicity.
M.Phil. Comparative Sociology, Yale University, (1977)
M.A. Sociology, Yale University, (1977)
M.A. International Urbanization and Public Policy, Clark Univ. (1985)
B.Soc.Sc. University of Guyana, (1973)
CURRENT RESEARCH
Coloniality, Creole Nationalism, and Globalization in the West Indies Black Diasporic Identity in the United StatesCURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
July 2006- Present, Acting Director, Center for Race and Gender, U.C. BerkeleyJune 2006-Present, President, Caribbean Studies Association
2005- 2006. Vice President, Caribbean Studies Association
2004-Present. Advisory Committee, Diaspora Summer Seminar, Florida International University
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
Problematizing Blackness: Self-Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States. Percy C Hintzen and Jean Rahier (eds). Routledge, 2003
West Indians in the West: Self Representations in a Migrant Community. New York: New York University Press, 2001
The Costs of Regime Survival: Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination and Control of the State in Guyana and Trinidad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS (2000 - 2005)
"Race, Ideology, and International Relations: Sovereignty and the Disciplining of Guyana's Working Class" Living at the Borderlines: Issues in Caribbean Sovereignty and Development edited by Cynthia Barrow-Giles and Don D. Marshall. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle. 2003.
"Globalization and Diasporic Identity Among West Indians" Caribbean Popular Culture and Globalization edited by Christine G.T. Ho and Keith Nurse. Kingston, Jamaica : Ian Randle 2003. (forthcoming)
"Rethinking Democracy in the Post-Nationalist State: The case of Trinidad and Tobago." In Elements of Political Culture in the Caribbean edited by Holger Henke and Fred Reno. Kingston, Jamaica. Univ. of West Indies Press. 2003.
"Race and Creole Ethnicity in the Caribbean" in Questioning Creole: Creolisation Discourses in Caribbean Culture" edited by Verene A. Shepherd and Glen L. Richards. Kingston: Ian Randle,. London: James Currey, 2002
"Guyana Today: Politics, Race, and Crisis in Guyana" Diaspora, February/March 2002. Pp. 82-86
"Racial and Ethnic Identity in the Caribbean" in The Blackwell Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies edited by John Solomos and David Goldberg. Oxford: Blackwell 2001
Afro-Creole Nationalism as Elite Domination: The English Speaking West Indies" in Foreign Policy and the Black International Interest, edited by Charles P. Henry. New York: State University of New York Press, 2001
"Rethinking Democracy in a Post-Nationalist State" in New Caribbean Thought edited by Brian Meeks and Folke Lindahl. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press. 2001. Pp 104-124.
Reprinted in modified form in Humanities and Social Sciences in East and Central Africa: Theory and Practice edited by Isaria N. Kimambo.. Dar es Salaam. Dar Es Salaam University Press. 2003
Cheddi Jagan (1918-97): Charisma and Guyana's Response to Western Capitalism" in Caribbean Charisma: Reflections on Leadership, Legitimacy, and Populist Politics. Edited by Anton Allahar. Boulder, Colorado: Lynn Reinner Publishers. 2001. Pp 121-154.
"Identity, Arena, and Performance: Being West Indian in the San Francisco Bay Area" in Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identies edited by Jean Rahier. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000
"Identity, Nationalism and Elite Domination: The English Speaking West Indies" in Ethnic Cleavages and Closure in the Caribbean Diaspora: Interactions of Race, Ethnicity, and Class edited by Prem Misir. New York: Caribbean Diaspora University Press. 2000 pp. 78-110.