Jorge Duany
Jorge Duany (born January 1957) is a theorist on Caribbean transnational migration and nationalism. Since 2012, he has been director of the Cuban Research Institute and Professor of Anthropology at Florida International University,[1] and has held various other teaching positions across the United States. His research focuses on concepts of nationalism, ethnicity, trans-nationalism, and migration within the Spanish Caribbean and between the Spanish Caribbean and the United States, particularly regarding Cuba and Puerto Rico.[2][1]
Biography
Early life and education
Duany was born in Cuba, but at an early age moved to Panama and eventually to Puerto Rico, where he grew up.[1] He attended college in the United States, obtained a bachelor's degree in Psychology at Columbia University in 1978, and a Master's degree in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago in 1979. He earned his PhD in Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, with a specialization in anthropology, in 1985.[1] He considers his experience moving from Cuba to Puerto Rico and the United States made him more qualified for the study of trans-national migration and comparison of the experiences of Caribbean peoples.[3]
Career
His teaching career started in 1980 at the University of the Sacred Heart in Santurce, Puerto Rico, where he taught anthropology, psychology and social sciences. He would also serve as professor for various years at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, among others. He has also served on various editorial boards, such as Caribbean Studies, Cuban Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.[1] He is currently the director of the Cuban Research Institute and a Professor of Anthropology at Florida International University since 2012.[1]
Theoretical contributions
On Puerto Rican Identity
Duany's most popular and most cited work is his research on Puerto Rican transnational migration and diaspora relations. Michael R. Hall notes Duany's research is at the intersection of the three major research themes of recent Puerto Rican studies: the fall of political nationalism, the rise of cultural nationalism, and the migration of Puerto Ricans between Puerto Rico and the United States.[4] One of Duany's most often noted contributions to theorization on Puerto Rican self-identity and migratory history is the inclusion of other migratory waves outside of Nuyoricans, like the Popular Democratic Party's contract farm labor programs in Michigan in the 1950s and the more recent wave of middle-class Puerto Ricans to Orlando.[5] Another important contribution to note is his positive stance and insistence on the Nuyorican community and Puerto Ricans in the US as being both part of and beneficial to the Puerto Rican cultural identity.[4][6]
On Cuban and Dominican identity and diasporic thought
Duany talks about Cuban diasporic identity as one seeking symbolic ties to the homeland, as a good majority of the Cuban exiles are opposed to the political and social situations of the island.[7] He notes Cubans in Miami use their Catholicism as their way to deal with their displacement and emotional ties to the island,[8] as a replacement for the disconnect in the political and social realities of Castro's Cuba.
He notes that in the Dominican Republic, the ties between the homeland and the diaspora are much more important politically and economically. Major political contenders frequently depend upon funding and organizational support from US Dominicans,[7] going as far as to promote dual nationality. Transnationalism in the Dominican Republic thus takes a major role in Dominican political and economic issues on the mainland and abroad, and migrants are much more connected and valued in the mainland's politics in comparison to Cuba and Puerto Rico.[7]
Selected works
Duany, Jorge. The Puerto Rican nation on the move: Identities on the island and in the United States. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Duany, Jorge. "Reconstructing racial identity: Ethnicity, color, and class among Dominicans in the United States and Puerto Rico." Latin American Perspectives 25, no. 3 (1998): 147-172.
Duany, Jorge. Blurred borders: Transnational migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Cobas, José A., Jorge Duany, and Joe R. Feagin. How the United States racializes Latinos: White hegemony and its consequences. Routledge, 2015.
Duany, Jorge. "The rough edges of Puerto Rican identities: Race, gender, and transnationalism." (2005): 177-190.
Duany, Jorge. Cubans in Puerto Rico: Ethnic Economy and Cultural Identity 1997.
Duany, Jorge. "Nation on the move: The construction of cultural identities in Puerto Rico and the diaspora." American Ethnologist 27, no. 1 (2000): 5-30.
Duany, Jorge. "Quisqueya on the Hudson: The transnational identity of Dominicans in Washington Heights." (2008).
See also
References
- "Jorge Duany". Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
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- Stevens-Arroyo, Anthony M. "Book Review of: BLURRED BORDERS: TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION BETWEEN THE HISPANIC CARIBBEAN AND THE UNITED STATES". Centro Journal.
- Rivera, Angel Rodriguez; Duany, Jorge (November 2003). "The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States". Contemporary Sociology. 32 (6): 718. doi:10.2307/1556654. ISSN 0094-3061. JSTOR 1556654.
- Chomsky, Aviva (September 2012). "Blurred borders: Transnational migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States by Jorge Duany". Latino Studies. 10 (3): 417–419. doi:10.1057/lst.2012.21. ISSN 1476-3435. S2CID 144823218.
- Perez, Ricardo (April 2019). "Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know ‐ by Duany, Jorge". Bulletin of Latin American Research. 38 (2): 237–238. doi:10.1111/blar.12958. ISSN 0261-3050.
- Hoffnung-Garskof, Jesse (2014). "Jorge Duany, Blurred Borders: Transnational Migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. xv + 284 pp. (Paper US$29.95)". New West Indian Guide. 88 (3–4): 375–377. doi:10.1163/22134360-08803034. ISSN 1382-2373.
- Aguirre, Benigno E.; Cobas, Jose A.; Dunany, Jorge (May 1999). "Cubans in Puerto Rico: Ethnic Economy and Cultural Identity". Contemporary Sociology. 28 (3): 331. doi:10.2307/2654180. ISSN 0094-3061. JSTOR 2654180.