Ramón Grosfoguel, Associate Professor

Ethnic Studies Department, Chicano/Latino Studies

Office: 570 Barrows
Email: grosfogu@berkeley.edu
Phone: 642-3037
Office hours: TBA

Education

Post-Doctoral, Fernand Braudel Center/Maison des Sciences de l‘Homme, Paris, France, 1993-4
PhD, Sociology, Temple University, 1992
MA, Urban Studies, Temple Univerisity, 1986
BA, Sociology, University of Puerto Rico, 1979

Courses

Undergraduate
Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the US
Advanced Seminar on Social Science Methods
Black Thought
Comparative Latino Migration
Theory and Methods
Chicano Paradigms
Graduate
Transnational Paradigms in Ethnic Studies

Selected publications

2009 - Geopolitics and Trajectories of Development: The Cases of Korean, Japan, Taiwan, Germany and Puerto Rico. Co-edited with Sungho Kang. Forthcoming from the Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Press.

2009 - "Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States" (with Anna Margarita Cervantes-Rodriguez and Brice Mielants), in Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States: Essays on Incorporation, Identity and Citizenship, co-edited with Eric Mileants and Margarita Cervantes-Rodriguez.

2008 - "Latinos and Decolonization of the US Empire in the 21st Century." Social Science Information 47(4):605-22.

2008 - "World-System Analysis and Postcolonial Studies: A Call for Dialogue from the =Coloniality of Power‘ Approach", in Revathi Krishnaswamy and John C. Hawley, eds., The Postcolonial and the Global. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 94-104.

2007 - "The Epistemic Decolonial Turn: Beyond Political Economy Paradigms." Cultural Studies 21(2-3):211-23.

2006 - "The Long-Durée: Entanglement Between Islamophobia and Racism in the Modern-Colonial Capitalist/Patriarchal World-System." Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge V(1):Fall.

2003 - Colonial Subjects: Puerto Rican Subjects in a Global Perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press.

2002 - The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System in the Twentieth Century: Global Processes, Antisystemic Movements, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge. Edited with Ana Margarita Cervantes-Rodriguez. New York: Praeger.