Dr. Jean Muteba Rahier Associate Professor of Anthropology & African-New World Studies E-mail: jrahier@fiu.edu Office: Biscayne Bay Campus/AC1-380 Phone: (305) 919-4567 Fax: (305) 919-5896 |
Jean Muteba Rahier received his Ph.D. from the Université de Paris X, Nanterre, France in June 1994. He is Associate Professor of anthropology and of African-New World Studies. His areas of scholarly interest include the theoretical orientations in the history of African diaspora anthropology, the ethnography of the African diaspora, blackness and the performance of identity, African diaspora performativity, European colonialism in Central Africa, representations of Africa in films, and the African diaspora in Latin America. His geographic areas of expertise are Ecuador, Colombia, the United States and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is the author of La Décima: Poesía Oral Negra del Ecuador (Abya-Yala, 1987) and the editor of Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities (Westport: Bergin & Garvey, 1999), and, with Percy Hintzen, of Problematizing Blackness: Self-Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States (Routledge, 2003). He has authored a series of articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries.
He is the Editor of the Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology (JLACA), a peer-reviewed journal that belongs within the American Anthropological Association (AAA) to the Society for Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA). His tenure as Editor of JLAA goes from January 2003 to June 2006. For more information about JLAA, visit the website http://www.fiu.edu/~jlaa
He is, with Carole Boyce Davies, the Co-PI of a Ford Foundation grant awarded to the FIU African-New World Studies Program, which is entitled "Intersections of African Diaspora Knowledge Communities: The South Florida Model." The section of the grant under his responsibility is the International Graduate Summer seminar for Master and Doctoral Students called "Interrogating the African Diaspora" which will take place during the summers of 2004, 2005, and 2006. For more information, visit the website
http://www.fiu.edu/~interadBooks
Representation of Blackness and Performance of Identities
Edited by Jean Muteba Rahier. Connecticut, Bergin & Garvey: Greenwood Press, 1999.
La Decima: Poesia Oral Negra del Ecuador
Jean Rahier
Quito: Abya-Yala, 1987.
Problematizing Blackness: Self-Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States
Edited by Percy Hintzen & Jean Muteba Rahier
