Rahier, Jean

Rahier, Jean
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Professor, Global and Sociocultural Studies , Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs

Contact Info

jrahier@fiu.edu

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selected publications

Article
- 2020
  
  From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Contemporary Ethnoracial Law in Multicultural Ecuador The "Changing Same" of Anti-Black Racism as Revealed by Two Lawsuits Filed by Afrodescendants. CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY. 61:S248-S259.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/710061 Web of Science: 000584752600010
- 2019
  
  Anti-discrimination law in two legal cases in multicultural Ecuador: Afro-Ecuadorian organizations and individuals versus Bonil/El Universo, and Michael Arce and Liliana Mendez versus Lieutenant Fernando Encalada/Escuela Superior Militar Eloy Alfaro (ESMIL). LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ETHNIC STUDIES. 14:270-293.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2019.1673050 Web of Science: 000540797800004
- 2011
  
  From Invisibilidad to Participation in State Corporatism: Afro-Ecuadorians and the Constitutional Processes of 1998 and 2008. IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER. 18:502-527.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2011.671712 Web of Science: 000303208200005
- 2003
  
  The ghost of Leopol II: The Belgian Royal Museum of Central Africa and its dusty colonial exhibition. RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES. 34.
  Web of Science: 000181184400005
- 1998
  
  Blackness, the racial/spatial order, migrations, and Miss Ecuador 1995-96. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST. 100.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/aa.1998.100.2.421 Web of Science: 000074919300013
Book
- 2013
  
  Kings for three days: The play of race and gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian festival
Book Chapter
- 2012
  
  Afro-Ecuadorian community organizing and political struggle: Influences on and participation in constitutional processes. 198-218.
- 2012
  
  Interview with Maria Alexandra Ocles Padilla, Former Minister, Secretaria de Pueblos, Movimientos Sociales y Participacion Ciudadana, Ecuador. BLACK SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA: FROM MONOCULTURAL MESTIZAJE TO MULTICULTURALISM. 169-182.
  Web of Science: 000314524400011
- 2012
  
  Interview with Maria Ines Barbosa, Former Vice-Minister, Secretaria Especial de Politicas de Promocao da Igualdade Racial (SEPPIR), Brazil. BLACK SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA: FROM MONOCULTURAL MESTIZAJE TO MULTICULTURALISM. 213-224.
  Web of Science: 000314524400014
- 2012
  
  Introduction Black Social Movements in Latin America: From Monocultural Mestizaje and "Invisibility" to Multiculturalism and State Corporatism/Co-optation. BLACK SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA: FROM MONOCULTURAL MESTIZAJE TO MULTICULTURALISM. 1-12.
  Web of Science: 000314524400002
- 2003
  
  Racist stereotypes and the embodiment of blackness: Some narratives of female sexuality in Quito. 296-324.
Book Review
- 2018
  
  Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil. Ed. 23.
  Web of Science: 000427598100018
- 2017
  
  Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America. Ed. 36.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/blar.12689 Web of Science: 000409240600024
- 2017
  
  Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology. Ed. 44.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/amet.12502 Web of Science: 000404546100036
- 2017
  
  The Latin American constitutionalism today: between legal renewal and democratic development?. Ed. 85.
  Web of Science: 000424427400013
- 2016
  
  Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic. Ed. 90.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1163/22134360-09003012 Web of Science: 000389753700014
- 2015
  
  Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship.. Ed. 42.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/amet.12182 Web of Science: 000363657700027
- 2014
  
  The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race.. Ed. 41.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/amet.12082_13 Web of Science: 000334894000024
- 2013
  
  People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange. Ed. 87.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1163/22134360-12340062 Web of Science: 000342406500009
- 2009
  
  Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the US South. Ed. 83.
  Web of Science: 000207938800016
- 1999
  
  Cultures of scholarship.. Ed. 101.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/aa.1999.101.4.887 Web of Science: 000086129500050
Review
- 2004
  
  The study of Latin American "racial formations": Different approaches and different contexts. LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH REVIEW.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/lar.2004.0057 Web of Science: 000224680100017

chaired theses and dissertations

Roe, Angela E., The Sound of Silence: Ideology of National Identity and Racial Inequality in Contemporary Curaçao 2016

principal investigator on

Expanding and Developing African Studies at Florida International University awarded by U.S. Department of Education 2014 - 2017
14th Eric Williams Memorial Lecture awarded by Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs 2012
The Eleventh Eric Williams Memorial Lecture awarded by Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs 2009

teaching activities

AFH2000-RVC: African Civilizations Fall Term 2019
AFH2000-RVC: African Civilizations Spring Term 2019
ANG5905-U08: Directed Individual Study Fall Term 2019
ANG5905-U14: Directed Individual Study Spring Term 2019
ANG7964-U05: Preparation: Preliminary Doctoral Exam Fall Term 2019
ANG7980-U02: Ph.D. Dissertation Spring Term 2019
ANG7980-U03: Ph.D. Dissertation Fall Term 2019
ANT3241-RVAA: Myth, Ritual, and Mysticism Fall Term 2019
ANT3241-RVAA: Myth, Ritual, and Mysticism Spring Term 2019
ANT3241-RVBB: Myth, Ritual, and Mysticism Fall Term 2019
ANT3241-RVBB: Myth, Ritual, and Mysticism Spring Term 2019
ANT3241-RVC: Myth, Ritual, and Mysticism Fall Term 2019
ANT3241-RVC: Myth, Ritual, and Mysticism Spring Term 2019

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Jean Rahier

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