Professor Jean Muteba Rahier Associate Professor of Anthropology & ANWS E-mail: jrahier@fiu.edu Office: Biscayne Bay Campus, Academic One, Room 380 |
Curriculum Vita
Work Address
Florida International University
Biscayne Bay Campus, Academic One-380
3000 N.E. 151 Street
North Miami, FL 33181
F.I.U. (305) 919.4567 (voice mail)
Fax: (305) 919.5896
E-Mail: jrahier@fiu.eduEducation
Ph.D. Université de Paris X, Nanterre, Sociology
June 1994 France
Graduated with the Mention (Honors): Très Honorable (“Very Honorable”).(My advisor is an anthropologist who teaches in the Department of Sociology)
License en Sciences Université Libre de Bruxelles, Anthropology
Sociales Belgium
July 1985
Graduated with Honors.EMPLOYMENT
August 1998 through the present
Associate Professor of Anthropology and African-New World Studies at Florida International University.
(I was awarded tenure in May 2002)August 1994-August 1998
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University.August 1992 – July 1994
Instructor of Anthropology, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University.September 1991
Lecturer for the African-American Studies Department, University of California at Berkeley.October 1989 – March 1990
Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Catholic University of Ecuador in Quito.September 1986-June 1987
French Teacher at the French High School Charles de la Condamine of Quito, Ecuador.October 1986 – March 1987
Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) in Quito.Administration
From August 1999 to January 2002
Director of Florida International University's African-New World Studies Graduate Program .Spring and Summer 2001
Acting Director of Florida International University's African-New World Studies Program.SELECTED RESEARCH, SERVICE, AND TEACHING
Selected Research
From January 2003 to last until June 2007
Editor of the Journal of Latin American Anthropology, which is the Journal of the Society for Latin American Anthropology (SLAA), within the American Anthropological Association (AAA).Since July 2001
Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of the Bulletin of Latin American Research , in the U.K.1987-1991
Translator of the Afro-Ecuadorian novel by Nelson Estupiñan Bass, Cuando los Guayacanes Florecían , from Spanish to French.March 1989 – May 1991
Director of the Research Project entitled Las Relaciones Inter-Etnicas en la Provincia de Esmeraldas. Historia, Contextos y Simbolismo de la Fiesta de los Reyes, sponsored by the Catholic University of Ecuador in Quito and the National Council of Universities of Ecuador (C.O.N.U.E.P.).January 1989 – December 1989
Director of a project of organization of oral data (685 cassettes) on Afro-Ecuadorian History entitled Proyecto de Ordenamiento y Análisis del Material Audio (cassettes) del Fondo Audio-Visual del Archivo Histórico del Centro de Investigación y Cultura del Banco Central en Esmeraldas , sponsored by the Banco Central of Ecuador.1986-1989
Collaborator for Etno-Publicaciones, Afro-Ecuadorian organization which published the Cuadernos Afro-Ecuatorianos.• Fieldwork/residence in Ecuador.
1983-1984
Research Assistant for two Urban Sociology projects pertaining to the Maghreb community of Brussels, funded by the Institute of Sociology of the University of Brussels, Belgium.Teaching
August 4 th – 15 th , 2003 Invited Faculty of the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar's (UASB) Doctoral Program in Latin American Cultural Studies (Quito, Ecuador). 30 hours Course taught: Ordenes Raciales, Espaciales y Sexuales .
November 12 & 13, 2002 Invited Instructor for the workshop Analisis de Discurso organized by the GTZ project Salud Sexual y Reproductiva in San Salvador , El Salvador.
October 18 & 19, 2002 Co-Instructor for the mini-course Sons e Imagens do Atlântico Negro organized by the Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais (CEAO) da Universidade Federal da Bahia, in Salvador, Brazil.
July 15, 2001 through July 19, 2001 Instructor in the graduate ethnic and racial studies course entitled Fábrica de Ideas (“the Idea Factory”), organized by the Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos of the Candido Mendes University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
July 17, 2000 through July 21, 2000 Instructor in the graduate ethnic and racial studies course entitled Fábrica de Ideas (“the Idea Factory”), organized by the Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos of the Candido Mendes University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Co-P.I. of the Ford Foundation Grant, “Intersection of African Diaspora Knowledge Communities: the South Florida Model,” awarded to FIU's African-New World Studies Program on July 8, 2003. Amount of the grant: $350,000.00 over three years (2003-2006). My section of the grant (which represents around $63,000.00 per year, is for the development of an International Graduate Summer Seminar entitled “Interrogating the African Diaspora.” (See the website at http://www.fiu.edu/~interad .
Since July 2003 Fulbright Senior Specialist. I was awarded a summer grant for the summer 2003 to conduct research in Ecuador and teach at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar.
April-May 1998 Invited scholar in residence in the 1997 – 1998 Northwestern University Institute for Advanced Study and Research in the African Humanities, to participate in the Seminar “Identity Constructions: Performing and Writing the African Diaspora, 1880-2000.” Paper presented: “Re-Representations of Blackness in the Afro-Esmeraldian Festival of the Kings, Ecuador.” Additional lecture given: “Presence of Blackness and Representations of Jewishness in the Afro-Esmeraldian Celebrations of the Semana Santa (Ecuador).”
July 1997 Organizer and Coordinator of the Symposium “Representations of Blackness in the Context of Festivity,” “during the 49 th International Congress of Americanists (I.C.A.), Quito, Ecuador.
March-April 1995 Co-Organizer of the African and African-American Film Festival 1995 at Louisiana State University.
1995 Grant awarded by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH). Title of the project “African and African-American Film Festival 1995”.
March 1994 Co-Organizer of the African Film Festival at Louisiana State University
June-July 1993 Summer Grant Manship awarded by the College of Arts and Sciences of Louisiana State University. Research project: “Ambiguous Identities: the case of a Belgian-Zarian family”.
1989 Scholarship for Graduate Studies awarded by the Agence Générale de la Coopération au Dévelopment (A.G.C.D.) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium for fieldwork in Ecuador.
Since September 1990 Member of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). In the AAA, member of the Association of Black Anthropologists, the Society for Latin American Anthropology, the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, the Society for Cultural Anthropology, and the Society for Visual Anthropology.
Member of the Southern Anthropological Society
At FIU, member of the association of Black Employees, Affiliated Faculty of Latin American and Caribbean Center.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
French written and oral fluency of a native speaker, Spanish written and oral fluency, English written and oral fluency, good written and oral knowledge of Portuguese, knowledge of Flemish, in the process of learning Lingala.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Rahier, Jean Muteba
Forthcoming Playful African Diasporic Performances of Race and Gender: The Afro-Esmeraldian Festival of Kings, Ecuador . Urbana-Champaign: The University of Illinois Press.
Hintzen, Percy and Jean Muteba Rahier (Editors)
2003 Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States , New York and London: Routledge.
Rahier, Jean Muteba (Editor)
1999 Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities , Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey (Greenwood Press).
Rahier, Jean
1987 La Décima: Poesía Oral Negra del Ecuador , Quito: Abya-Yala and Centro Cultural Afro-Ecuatoriano.
Articles and book chapters
Rahier, Jean Muteba
Forthcoming “Creolization And African Diaspora Cultures: The Case Of The Afro-Esmeraldian Decimas .” In The Ecuador Reader: History, Nation, and Politics , Edited by Carlos de la Torre and Steve Striffler, Durham and London: Duke University Press.
2003 “Racist Stereotypes and the Embodiment of Blackness: Some Narratives of Female Sexuality in Quito, Ecuador.” In Millenial Ecuador: Critical Essays on Cultural Transformations and Social Dynamics Edited by Norman Whitten, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press: 296-324.
2003 “Poetics and Politics of Black and White Bodies: Señoras, Mujeres, Blanqueamiento and Miss Esmeraldas 1997-1998.” In Decolonizing the Academy: African Diaspora Studies , edited by Carole Boyce Davies, with M. Gadsby, C. Peterson, and H. Williams, Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 257-268.
2003 “ Métis/Mulâtre , Mulato , Mulatto, Negro , Moreno , Mundele Kaki , Black, …: The Wanderings and Meanderings of Identities.” In Problematizing Blackness: Self-Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States , Edited by P. Hintzen and J.M. Rahier, New York, London: Routledge, 85-112.
Hintzen, Percy Claude and Jean Muteba Rahier
2003 “ From Structural Politics to the Politics of Deconstruction: Self-Ethnographies Problematizing Blackness .” In Problematizing Blackness: Self-Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States , Edited by P. Hintzen and J.M. Rahier, New York, London: Routledge, 1-20.
2003 “Lugares de identidad y representaciones: lo negro en la fiesta afro-esmeraldeña de los reyes, Ecuador”, in Ritualidades latinoamericanas : un acercamiento interdisciplinario / Ritualidades latino-americanas : uma aproximação interdisciplinar , Editado por Martín Lienhard, Frankfurt-Madrid: Vervuert-Iberoamericana: 169-193.
Rahier, Jean Muteba
2003 Guest Editor of a special issue of the Journal of Latin American Anthropology on Mestizaje , Mulataje , and Mestiçagem in Latin American Ideologies of National Identity. Vol. 8 (1).
2003 “Mestizaje, Mulataje, and Mestiçagem in Latin American Ideologies of National Identities,” Journal of Latin American Anthropology , Vol. 8 (1); 40-51.
Rahier, Jean Muteba
2003 “The Ghost of Leopold II Sneers: the Belgian Royal Museum of Central Africa and Its Dusty Colonialist Exhibition” Research in African Literature , Volume 34, Nº1 (Spring): 58-84.
2001 "Mãe, o que será que o negro quer?" Representações racistas na Revista Vistazo, 1957-1991. Estudos Afro-Asiáticos , ano 23, no.1 pp. 1-24.
2001 “(U.S-Centered) Afrocentric Imaginations of Africa: L.H. Clegg's ‘When Black Men Ruled the World' and Eddie Murphy's ‘Coming to America'” in Images of Africa: Stereotypes and Realities , Daniel Mengara (Ed.), Africa World Press: 261-277.
2001 “Lugares de identidad y representaciones: lo negro en la fiesta de los Reyes en el Ecuador” , (con traducción al español de María Teresa Ortega Sastrique), conjunto (Cuba), n° 120, enero-marzo: pp. 70-81
2001 “Blanqueamiento en Esmeraldas: Señoras, Mujeres y Concursos de Belleza,” in Diversidad: ¿sinónimo de discriminación? Patricio Benalcázar y Mara Judith Ed., Quito: Fundación Regional de Asesoría en Derechos Humanos (INREDH): 219-240.
1999 “Imaginações afrocêntricas da África (por Americanos): When Black Men Ruled the World, de L.H. Clegg, e Um príncipe em Nova Iorque, de Eddie Murphy,” Cadernos de Antropologia e Imagem ( Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Volume 9, n°2: 51-64.
(This issue actually came out in January 2001)
1999 ‘“Mami, ¿qué será lo que quiere el negro?': Representaciones racistas en la revista Vistazo, 1957-1991,” in Ecuador racista: imágenes e identidades , Emma Cervone and Fredy Rivera Ed., Quito: FLACSO-Sede Ecuador: 73-110.
(This piece, without the illustrations, has also been published on the web page of the LASA section of Ecuadorianists at http://www.yachana.org/ecuatorianistas/essays/rahier.html)
December 1999 “Body Politics in Black and White: Señoras, Mujeres, Blanqueamiento and Miss Esmeraldas 1997-1998, Ecuador,” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, vol. 11:1, issue 21: 103-119
Rahier, Jean Muteba and Michael Hawkins
1999 ‘“Gone with the Wind' versus the Holocaust Metaphor: Louisiana Plantation Narratives in Black and White,” in Plantation Society and Race Relations: The Origins of Inequality , edited by Thomas J. Durant, Jr. and J. David Knottnerus. Westport, CT: Praeger: Pp. 205-220.
Rahier, Jean Muteba
1999 “Comments to ‘Working Culture: Making Cultural Identities in Cali, Colombia,' by Peter Wade” Current Anthropology, vol. 40, n°4, August-October: 464-465.
1999 “Blackness as a Process of Creolization: the Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas (Ecuador),” in The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities , edited by Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce-Davies and Ali Mazrui, Bloomington: Indiana University Press: 290-314.
1999 “Presence of Blackness and Representations of Jewishness in the Afro-Esmeraldian Celebrations of the Semana Santa (Ecuador),” in Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities , edited by Jean Muteba Rahier, Westport, CT: Bergin&Garvey (Greenwood Press): 19-47
1999 “Representaciones de gente negra en la revista Vistazo,” Íconos (Revista de FLACSO-Ecuador), n° 7 , abril: 96-105.
1998 “Blackness, the ‘racial'/spatial order, migrations, and Miss Ecuador 1995-1996,”
American Anthropologist, vol. 100, n. 2, June: 421-430.
1998 “Estudios de Negros en la Antropología Ecuatoriana: Presencia, Invisibilidad y Reproducción del Orden ‘Racial'/Espacial,” in Memorias del Primer Congreso Ecuatoriano de Antropología Volumen II, Quito (Ecuador): Departamento de Antropología P.U.C.E., Associación Escuela de Antropología P.U.C.E., MARKA (Instituto de Historia y Antropología Andinas, Abya Yala: 357-377.
1996 “Carnavals du Monde”, Program of the 1996 International Festival of Lafayette, Louisiana.
1992 “La Población Afro-Imbabureña”, in Monografía de la Provincia de Imbabura , Centro de Ediciones Culturales, Ibarra, Ecuador.
1991 “El Juego de los Cucuruchos Afro-Esmeraldeño”, Antropología, Cuadernos de Investigación , Departamento de Antropología, PUCE, Quito, N° 5 : 125-146
Published Conference papers
1999 “The permanent exposition of the Africa Museum of Tervuren: a frozen 19th century colonialist ideology?” presented at the conference “Belgium's Africa: Assessing the Belgian Legacy in and on Africa,” organized at the University of Gent, Belgium on October 21-23. http://africana.rug.ac.be/texts/Belgiumsafrica/Programme2.htm
Essay Reviews
Rahier, Jean Muteba
2004 “ The Study of Latin American ‘Racial Formations': Different Approaches And Different Contexts.” Latin American Research Review , Vol. 39, No. 3, October: 282-293.
Book reviews
S.C Humphreys, Editor, Cultures of Scholarship Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1997. 428 pp. Published in American Anthropologist, voloume 101 (4), December 1999; 887-888.
Peter Wade, Blackness and Race Mixture. The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia , (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993). Published in the Journal of Historical Geography, Volume 21, Number 2, April 1995, pp. 235-236.
Encyclopedia entries
1999 6 entries (“Esmeraldas,” “Antonio Preciado Bedoya,” “Adalberto Ortiz,” “Nelson Estupiñán Bass,” “Anton,” and “Sebastian Alonso de Illescas”) in the encyclopedia Encarta Africana , edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., Redmond: Microsoft, and New York: Perseus.
Forthcoming “Representations of Blackness, Latin America and the Caribbean.” In Encyclopedia of African-American Culture & History . Colin Palmer (Editor in Chief), Second Edition, Farmington Hills: Macmillan Reference USA.
SELECTED PAPER PRESENTATIONS, CONFERENCES, AND LECTURES
May 7, 2004 Invited Participant in the Keynote Plenary Roundtable entitled “Between Ethnic Studies and Transnational Studies” which took place during the Second Conference of the U.S. Cultural Studies Association organized at Northeastern University, Boston.
April 24, 2004 Paper presentation at the conference “The Black Body: Imagining, Writing, (Re)Reading: An International Conference” organized at DePaul University, Chicago. Paper presented: “Racist Stereotypes and the Embodiment of Blackness: Some Narratives of Female Sexuality in Quito, Ecuador.”
August 14, 2003 Invited Lecturer for the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, in Quito, Ecuador. Title of lecture: “ Áfricas de las Américas: Una Aproximación Cinematográfica .”
April 5, 2003 Invited Speaker for the conference “L'Europe Fantôme: Entre le désir et le désenchantement,” which took place in Tervuren, Belgium, and which was organized by the Royal Museum of Central Africa and the NGO Coopération par l'Education et la Culture. Title of the presentation: “La Pâte Feuilletée du Métissage: Les errances et Déambulations des Identités.”
March 29, 2003 Discussant of the panel “Racial Dwellings: Negotiating Blackness, Belonging, and Exoticism Through the Built Environment” organized and chaired by Isar Godreau. XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
November 23 rd , 2002 Paper presentation at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting in New Orleans. Paper presented: “Race, Beauty, And Silences In Esmeraldas, Ecuador.”
November 12 th , 2002 Invited lecturer for the Proyecto de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva GTZ in San Salvador, El Salvador. Title of the lecture: “Análisis de discurso y su Utilidad en las Políticas Sociales.” The lecture took place in the Sala de Sesiones de la quinta planta de la Torre de Ciencias de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Masferrer.
October 25 th , 2002 Paper presentation at the XXVI Annual Meeting of ANPOCS—the Brazilian National Association for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences—in Caxambú, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Title of the paper presented: “Afro-Ecuadorian Migration, Social Mobility, and the Renegotiation/Brake –up of Racial and Ethnic Solidarity in Quito, Ecuador.”
Oc tober 18 th , 2002 Invited Lecturer for the Department of Anthropology of the Universidade Federal da Bahia, in Salvador, Brazil. Title of the lecture: “Antropologia e Estudos de Performances”.
October 17 th , 2002 Invited Lecturer for the Centro de Estudos Afro-Brazileiros da Universidade Candido Mendes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Title of the lecture: “The Ghost of Leopold II Sneers: the Belgian Royal Museum of Central Africa and Its Dusty Colonialist Exhibition.”
April 18-20, 2002 Participation/contribution to Conference entitled “Africas of the Americas” organized by Stephan Palmié at the University of Maryland, Washington DC. Title of paper presented: “Political Agendas and ‘Inventions of Africa': Alice Walker, Henry Louis Gates, and Manthia Diawara.”
April 11 th , 2001 Guest Lecturer for the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies at Barnard College, New York City. Title of lecture: “Racist Stereotypes and the Embodiment of Blackness: Some Narratives of Female Sexuality in Quito, Ecuador,”
November 2001 Paper presentation at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting in Washington DC. Paper presented: “Rooting And Travelling In The African Diaspora: The Case Of The Early Black Presence In Esmeraldas, Ecuador.”
October 12, 2001 Invited Lecturer at the African and African Diaspora Studies Program of Tulane University. Title of the lecture: “The Ghost of Leopold II Sneers: The Permanent Exposition of the Royal Museum of Central Africa at Tervuren, Belgium.”
April 29 th – May 5 th , 2001 Invited lecturer (ponente plenario) in the conference/symposium R itualidades Latinoamericanas: Una aproximación interdisciplinaria organized by Dr. Martin Lienhard from the University of Zurich, in the city of Locarno.
February 27 th , 2001 Guest Lecturer of the African Diaspora and Latin American Studies Program of Colgate University. Paper presented: “The Ideology of Mestizaje at Work. The Construction of Afro-Ecuadorians as Ultimate Others.”
February 1 st , 2001 Invited Lecturer in the Dept. of Anthropology of New York University. Paper presented: “Una Señora y Dos Putas: Blackness, Sexuality, and the Embodiment of Blanqueamiento in Quito, Ecuador.”
January 31 st , 2001 Invited lecturer in the Work in Progress Series of the Dept. of African American Studies of Yale University. Paper presented: “Una Señora y Dos Putas: Blackness, Sexuality, and the Embodiment of Blanqueamiento in Quito, Ecuador.”
November 15-19, 2000 Participation in the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, in the panel, which I chaired, entitled “Breaking Taboo: (Theorizing) Sex and Sexualities in the African Diaspora.” Title of the paper presented on November 18: “Una Señora y dos Putas: Blacknes, Sexuality, and Stereotypes in Quito, Ecuador.”
October 26-28, 2000 Participation in the Conference “Diasporas africaines dans l'ancient et le nouveau monde: conscience et imaginaire,” organized by Michel and Geneviève Fabre for the Equipe Diaspora (Etudes africaines américaines) de l'institut d'Anglais Charles V, Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot et Cercle d'Etudes Afro-Américaines. Presentation of the paper: “towards a Multi-Centered and Multi-Spatial Approach in African Diaspora Studies” on October 26, 2000.
July 3 - July 15, 2000 Participation in the Seminar/Conference “Performance and Politics in the Americas” organized by New York University, UNI-Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Participation in the panel “Race and Popular Performance” on July 5 th . Presentation of the paper: “Places of Identity and Representation : Blackness in the Afro-Esmeraldian Festival of the Kings, Ecuador” on July 8.
March 16 – 19, 2000 Organizer of the double session “ Mestizaje and Mulataje, and other ‘Race Mixings' in Latin American and Caribbean Ideologies of National Identities,” Latin American Studies Association (LASA) meeting 2000, Hyatt Regency, Miami, Florida. Presentation of the paper “Some General reflections on the Ideological Use of ‘Race Mixings' in Latin American and Caribbean Hegemonic Imaginations of National Identities.”
March 15 th , 2000 Organizer of the one day symposium “Race and Anti-Black Racism in Latin America” at the Florida International University Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach. Presentation of the paper “The Spatial Dimensions of Ecuadorian Racism.”
October 27 – 31, 1999 Participation in the Conference “Visions and Voices” organized at the University of Manchester, U.K for the 50 th anniversary of their Department of Anthropology. Presentation of the paper “A Renewed Black Movement in Multi-Cultural or Multi-National Ecuador?: The Emergence of New Antagonisms” in the two days panel “Black Populations, Social Movements and Identity in Latin America” organized by Peter Wade.
October 21 – 23, 1999 Participation in the Conference “Belgium's Africa” organized by Karel Arnaut of the University of Gent, Belgium. Presentation of the paper “The Permanent Exposition of the Africa Museum of Tervuren: A Frozen 19 th Century Colonialist Ideology?” in the workshop “Ethnographic Museums, Art and Popular Culture.”
October 12, 1999 Lecture “Places of identity and Representations: Blackness in Ecuador's Afro-Esmeraldian festival of the Kings” at New York City's Caribbean Cultural Center.
October 6-7, 1999 Participation in the Primero Seminário Afro Carioca. Paper presentation in the panel “Teorias e Políticas Anti-Racistas.” This seminar was organized at the Universidade do Estado do rio de Janeiro by Prof. Myrian Sepúlveda dos Santos and Prof. Lívio Sasone.
October 5, 1999 Lecture As Áfricas Imaginadas, given at the Instituto Palmares de Direitos Humanos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in cooperation with the Centro das Populações Marginalizadas and of the Conselho Municipal da Defesa dos Direitos do Negro.
October 4, 1999 Lecture As Múltiplas Visões da África, given at the Teatro Municipal Procópio Ferreira (Câmara Municipal de Duque de Caxias). The lecture was organized by the A ssocião dos profesores de Historia de Duque de Caxias.
September 28 – October 1, 1999 Participation in the Congreso Mundial Sobre o Racismo e Feira Internacional Multicultural. Presentation of the paper “American Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Study of Racism” in the panel Antropologia Social e Cultural em Relação ao Racismo.
May 12, 1999 Invited Lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. Title of the lecture given: “Représentations de Peuples Noirs dans le Magazine Equatorien Vistazo, de 1957 à 1991.”
April 30-May 1, 1999 Organizer of the conference “Invisible Others/Active Presences: Transnational Citizenship, Self-Ethnographies, Diasporas” at Florida International University, Miami. Paper presentation: “ Métis/Mulâtre, Mulato, Negro, Moreno, Blanche Neige, Mundele Kaki, Black, Snow Man, …: Nationless Wanderings.”
April 9-12, 1999 Paper presentation and Panel Chair at the 5 th Performance Studies Conference “Here be Dragons” at the University of Aberystwyth, Wales. Title of panel, on April 10, 1999: “Fragmented Geographies/Local Identities: Performing Diaspora.” Title of paper: “Re-Imaginations of the National Racial / Spatial Order in the Miami Ecuadorian Diaspora: the End of Year Celebrations.”
March 31-April 3, 1999 Paper presentation and Panel chair at the Popular culture Association Conference, African-American Culture Area at the San Diego Marriott, California. Title of panel, on April 2, 1999: “Black and White in Narration and Media.”
Title of paper: ‘“Gone with the Wind' versus the Holocaust Metaphor: Louisiana Plantation Narratives in Black and White.”
December 2-6, 1998 Paper presentation and Panel Chair at the 97 th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) at the Philadelphia Marriott. Title of panel, on December 2, 1998: “Constructing Sexual and Racial Identities.” Title of paper: “Representations of African, Afro-Ecuadorian, and other African Diaspora Peoples in the Ecuadorian Maagazine vistazo, 1957-1996.”
November 23-27, 1998 Paper presentation at the Congreso Ecuatoriano de Historia 98 organized by the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, the Asociación de Historiadores del Ecuador, and the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Ecuador). The paper was presented in the Symposium “Poder, identidad y mentalidades, siglos XVI al XX.” Title of the paper presented on November 25, 1998: “ Construcción del Negro como Ultimo Otro en las imaginaciones de Identidad Nacional en los Textos de Selectos Intelectuales Ecuatorianos Blancos y Blanco-Mestizos.”
November 17-20, 1998 Invited lecturer by the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO Sede-Ecuador) to participate in the Interdisciplinary Seminar sponsored by the ILDIS, FLACSO and UNICEF- Ecuador entitled “ Entender el Racismo: El caso de Ecuador.” Title of lecture on November 18, 1998: “ Representaciones de africanos, de afroecuatorianos, y de otra gente de la diaspora en las páginas de Vistazo (de 1957 a 1996).”
October 1998 Invited lecturer by the international Programs and Studies of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to participate in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar sponsored by the Ford Foundation and entitled “Identity and the Arts in Diaspora Communities,” fall 1998. Title of lecture on October 28, 1998: “Representations of Blackness and the Ecuadorian Racial/Spatial Order in the Afro-Esmeraldian Festival of the Kings.” On October 27, 1998, I gave to graduate students of the Department of Anthropology a lecture entitled “Blackness and Blanqueamiento in Esmeraldas (Ecuador): the Political Geography of a Beauty Contest.”
October 22-24, 1998 Participant in the International Conference “Images of Africa” organized by the Society of Research on African Cultures (S.O.R.A.C) at Montclair State University, New Jersey. Title of the paper presented on Ocober 24, 1998: “Representations of Africa in Two African Films: L.H Clegg's “When Black Men Ruled the World,” and Eddie Murphy's “Coming to America.”
May 1998 Participant in the conference “21 st Century Paradigms in Africana Studies” organized by the African-New World Studies Program at the Florida International University (Miami). Paper presented: “Blackness and the ‘Racial/Spatial Order: Diversity and Resistance in Ecuador.”
April 13, 1998 Invited Lecturer for the University Program Council of the University of Northern Colorado (Denver). Title of the lecture: “Blackness, Blanqeamiento, and the Politics of Beauty in Esmeraldas (Ecuador): The Election of Jacqueline Primer a.”
November 12, 1997 Invited Lecturer for the African and African Diaspora Studies Program, Tulane University. Title of the lecture: “Blackness, Blanqueamiento, and the Politics of Beauty in Esmeraldas (Ecuador).
October 29, 1997 Invited Lecturer for the New School of Social Research, New York City. Title of lecture: “Blackness, Blanqueamiento, and the Politics of Beauty in Esmeraldas (Ecuador).
April 3-6, 1997 Paper presentation at the 60 th Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans. Title of the paper: ‘“Gone with the Wind' vs. the Holocaust Metaphor: Louisiana Plantation Narratives in Black and Wgite.”
1996 Poster presentation at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting held at the San Francisco Hilton. Poster title: “Representations of Blackness in the Afro-Esmeraldian Festival of the Kings (Ecuador).
October 1996 Paper presentation at the First Ecuadorian Congress of Anthropology held in Quito, Ecuador. Title of the paper presented: “ Estudios de Negros en la Antropología Ecuatoriana: Presencia, Invisibilidad y Reproducción del Orden ‘Racial'/Espacial”.
April 1996 Lecture given at the International Festival of Lafayette, Louisiana. Title of lecture: “The Afro-Esmeraldian Festival of the Kings (Epiphany)”
April 11-13, 1996 Paper presentation at the Conference “The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Self-Fashioning.” Hosted by the Department of Africana Studies, Binghamton University (SUNY). Title of paper presented: “Blackness as a Process of Creolization: The Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas (Ecuador).”
February 17-20, 1996 Paper Presentation at the 1996 Southern Anthropological Society meeting in Baton Rouge. Title of paper presented: “Blackness as a Process of Creolization: The Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas (Ecuador).”
January 29, 1996 Invited to lecture at the Board of Studies in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz. Title of lecture: “Spatial Dimensions of Ethnicity: Blackness in Ecuador.”
January 17 & 18, 1996 2 Lectures given at the Cycle of Lectures Raza y Sociedad en el Ecuador Contemporaneo (January 12-25) organized by the Programa de Estudios Interamericanos, Departamento de Atropología, Departamento de Sociología, and the Asociciones Escuela de Antropologí y Sociología of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuado, Quito. Title of lectures: Dimensiones Espaciales de la Etnicidad Negra en el Ecuador.
January 5, 1996 Paper presentation at the 1996 Congress of Latin-Americanist Geographers (January 3-6), Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Title of paper: “Local Constructions of Blackness in the Province of Esmeraldas (Ecuador): The Villages of La Tola and Santo Domingo de Onzole.”
April 1995 Conference on “Creole Cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean,” University of Delaware, Newark. Invited panelist. Title of the paper presented: “Blackness as a process of Creolization: The Case of Ecuador.”
March 1995 Lecture given at the Graduate Anthropology Colloquium of Tulane University, New Orleans. Title: “Blackness in Ecuador: A process of Creolization.”
March 7, 1990 Lecture given at the Institut de Recherches sur les Sociétés Contemporaines (IRESCO), Paris,France. Title: “Les Communautés Noires d'Esmeraldas (Equateur).”
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Director of a video documentary, Gente, música y Palabras del Valle del Chota, on musical and oral traditions of the Black community of the Chota River Valley (Province of Imbabura, Ecuador). Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology of the Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) and the C.O.N.U.E.P., edited in June 1988.
Reviewed manuscripts prior to publication for the journals Cultural Studies; A Research Annual, Current Anthropolgy, The Journal of Latin American Anthropology , American Ethnologist, and American Anthropologist , the University of Texas Press, the University of Illinois Press, and Wayne State University Press, the Wennergren Foundation and the National Science Foundation.