Puerto Rico End Being A Colon?
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After 405 Years of Colonization Under Spain and 123 years of Colonization Under the US: Will Puerto Rico End Being a Colony?
Book your spot for one of our upcoming online roundtable discussions with Dr. Victor Rodriguez. The discussion aims are to provide thoughtful context for the current political stirrings and answer your questions. We are keeping each session to 20 people max and the event will not be recorded. Feel free to reach out if you have questions or have a request.
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BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Victor Rodríguez is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He has previously taught courses at the University of California, Irvine, Concordia University, Irvine, and at Metropolitan University of Puerto Rico. He received a B.A. in History at the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras, and a Master's degree and Ph.D. in Comparative Culture with an emphasis in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity at the University of California at Irvine.
His area of expertise is the racialization of Latino identity and its impact on political behavior. At CSULB he taught courses in social inequality: Wealth and Poverty in Latino Communities, Chicano/Latino Politics, Identity Assimilation in Chicano and Latino Life, The Ethnic Experience, Latino Transnational Experience in the Caribbean: Empire, Reform and Revolution (includes a field experience in Cuba, Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico) and Latino Population in the United States and a seminar in anti-racist theory and practice (2016-2018). Dr. Rodríguez is a nationally known consultant diversity trainer. As a Puerto Rican anticolonial activist, and labor organizer he has worked to support Puerto Rican/Latino community organizations and writes op-ed columns (Spanish and English) for the national and Latin American media.
He writes and lectures about racialization in the educational system, Latino and diversity issues, works with universities on infusing anti-racist multi-cultural objectives in the curriculum and on how to recruit, retain faculty of color. The revised edition of his book, Latino Politics: Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender, was published in June 2012. He also served as General Editor of The Hispanic American Leadership: A Reference Guide published by Mission Bell Media, on June 2015.
Selected Publications: Book Chapters
“The Racialization of Puerto Rican Ethnicity" in Aaron Ramos and Juan Manuel Carrion Eds. Ethnicity, Race and Nationality in the Caribbean Rio Piedras: Institute for Caribbean Studies, 1997.
"Boricuas, African Americans, and Chicanos in the "Far West": Notes on the Puerto Rican Pro-Independence Movement in California, 1960s-1980s" Reprinted in Eds. Rodolfo Torres and George Katsiaficas Latino Social Movements: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives New York: Routledge, 1999.
“Social Protest and the Future of Higher Education in Puerto Rico” in ACADEME: Magazine of the American Association of University Professors, July-August, 2011, pp. 26-31.
Mainstream Media
"Puerto Ricans Suffer, Minus Political Power," Los Angeles Times January 11, 1986. (Sunday Opinion Column)
"America Fiddles While Puerto Rico Burns" in Newsday January 22, 1987, Opinion section.
"Vieques tossed by waves of Puerto Rican Politics" (Guest Column) in Sunday Orange County Register May 7, 2000.
“Latinos Lost Big in Santa Ana: After a Short Hiatus, This Elite is Back in Control@ commentary column in the Los Angeles Times (Orange County Edition) February 23, 2003 p. B17.
“The Puzzle of Race and Politics: The Puerto Rican Experience” Web Published in CounterPunch, June 4, 2008. http://www.counterpunch.org/rodriguez06042008.html.
“Struggle for Democracy and Public Education in Puerto Rico” in Monthly Review Magazine on February 13, 2011.
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/rodriguez130211.html
“The Genealogy of a Crisis: Puerto Rico and Wall Street’s 21st Century Debt Peonage Imperialism.” Counterpunch February 19, 2014
“Puerto Rico’s Crisis: Let’s Look at U.S. History.” Published August 6, 2015 NBC News
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/opinion-puerto-ricos-crisis-lets-look-u-s-history-n404701
“U.S. Military and Political Presence in Cuba.” Pp. 237-38 in Rodolfo Acuña U.S. Latino Issues Second Edition Greenwood, 2017.