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Rahier, Jean
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Global and Sociocultural Studies
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Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs
jrahier@fiu.edu
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Article
2024
Championing Human Rights for Afrodescendants in Latin America
Full Text via DOI:
10.33548/scientia1002
2022
"PONIENDO EL CADÁVER EN LA MESA….": Entrevista con Carlos Rosero, del Proceso de Comunidades Negras, Colombia
Full Text via DOI:
10.26512/abyayala.v6i1.40709
2022
DERECHOS COLECTIVOS Y LEYES DE IGUALDAD RACIAL PARA AFRODESCENDIENTES EN LA PRÁCTICA DE LOS SISTEMAS DE JUSTICIA EN LA AMÉRICA LATINA DE LOS 2020’s
Full Text via DOI:
10.26512/abyayala.v6i1.40713
2022
EL MODUS OPERANDI MULTICULTURALISTA DEL ESTADO EN AMÉRICA LATINA Y LA PRODUCCIÓN DE UNA ETNO-NORMATIVIDAD EN TRES LIBROS DE RECIENTE PUBLICACIÓN
Full Text via DOI:
10.26512/abyayala.v6i1.40711
2022
PARA OBTENER Y DEFENDER LOS DERECHOS DE LOS AFRODESCENDIENTES, LA VOLUNTAD POLÍTICA DE GOBERNANTES ES PRIMORDIAL: entrevista con el Asambleista José Chalá Cruz, Ecuador
Full Text via DOI:
10.26512/abyayala.v6i1.40710
2021
de Santana Pinho, Patricia (2018) Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil, The University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), xiii + 253 pp. $29.95 pbk.
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BULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH
. 40:469-471.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1111/blar.13277
2021
The observatory of justice for afrodescendants in latin america (Ojala) as an initiative of engaged anthropology for the promotion and defense of human rights
Full Text via DOI:
10.1590/1809-43412021v18a811
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
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CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY
. 61:S248-S259.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1086/710061
Web of Science:
000584752600010
2020
Multiculturalism, Afro-Descendant Activism, and Ethnoracial Law and Policy in Latin America
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LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH REVIEW
. 55:605-612.
Full Text via DOI:
10.25222/larr.1094
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
2018
Afro‐Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil. Christen A. Smith, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2016. 261 pp.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1111/jlca.12334
2015
Hypersexual Black Women in the Ecuadorian ‘Common Sense’
Full Text via DOI:
10.4000/civilisations.2838
2014
Hypersexual Black Women in the Ecuadorian ‘Common Sense’
Full Text via DOI:
10.4000/civilisations.2731
2013
Representaciones de gente negra en la Revista Vistazo, 1957-1991
Full Text via DOI:
10.17141/iconos.7.1999.684
2011
Hypersexual Black Women in the Ecuadorian ‘Common Sense’. An Examination of Visual and Other Representations
Full Text via DOI:
10.4000/civilisations.2743
2011
From
Invisibilidad
to Participation in State Corporatism: Afro-Ecuadorians and the Constitutional Processes of 1998 and 2008
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IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER
. 18:502-527.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1080/1070289X.2011.671712
Web of Science:
000303208200005
2010
Red Card: Soccer and Racism. Directed by Rodolfo Muñoz. In Spanish, subtitles in English. New York: Third World Newsreel, 2007. 93 minutes. DVD. $225.00.
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AMERICAS
. 67:151-152.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1353/tam.0.0290
2010
Red Card: Soccer and Racism. Directed by Rodolfo Muñoz. In Spanish, subtitles in English. New York: Third World Newsreel, 2007. 93 minutes. DVD. $225.00.
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AMERICAS
. 67:151-152.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1017/s000316150000540x
2010
Indians and Leftists. in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements. MARC BECKER: Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008
Full Text via DOI:
10.61490/eial.v21i2.55
2010
"THE DIVERSITY OF DIASPORIC SUBJECTIVITIES: DIFFERENT AND SEPARATE ONTOLOGIES?'' A RESPONSE TO KAMARI CLARKE'S "NEW SPHERES OF TRANSNATIONAL FORMATIONS: MOBILIZATIONS OF HUMANITARIAN DIASPORAS''
Full Text via DOI:
10.1111/j.1548-7466.2010.01071.x
Web of Science:
000211555800008
2008
Soccer and the (Tri-) Color of the Ecuadorian Nation: Visual and Ideological (Dis-) Continuities of Black Otherness from Monocultural Mestizaje to Multiculturalism
Full Text via DOI:
10.1111/j.1548-7458.2008.00011.x
Web of Science:
000211315400005
2007
Editor's Note
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlca.2007.12.1.iv
2006
Society for Latin American Anthropology
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/an.2006.47.4.53.2
2005
Editor's Note
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlat.2005.10.2.iii
2005
Editor's Note
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlat.2005.10.1.iii
2005
Entre Marx y una Mujer Desnuda, 2004
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlca.2005.10.1.267
2004
Editor's Note
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlat.2004.9.2.iii
2004
Editor's Note
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlca.2004.9.2.iii
2004
Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlca.2004.9.2.470
2004
Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power:Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlat.2004.9.2.470
2004
Editor's Note
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlat.2004.9.1.6
2004
Editor's Note
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlca.2004.9.1.6
2003
Introduction: Mestizaje, Mulataje, Mestiçagem in Latin American Ideologies of National Identities
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlca.2003.8.1.40
2003
Introduction: Mestizaje, Mulataje, Mesticagem in Latin American Ideologies of National Identities
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlat.2003.8.1.40
1999
Body politics in black and white: Señoras, mujeres, blanqueamiento and miss esmeraldas 1997–1998, ecuador
Full Text via DOI:
10.1080/07407709908571317
1998
Blackness, the racial/spatial order, migrations, and Miss Ecuador 1995-96
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AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST
. 100:421-+.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/aa.1998.100.2.421
Web of Science:
000074919300013
The ghost of Leopol II: The Belgian Royal Museum of Central Africa and its dusty colonial exhibition
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RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES
. 34:58-84.
Web of Science:
000181184400005
Book
2014
Black Social Movements in Latin America From Monocultural Mestizaje to Multiculturalism
2014
Problematizing Blackness, Self-Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States
Full Text via DOI:
10.4324/9780203951613
2014
Problematizing Blackness Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States
2014
Blackness in the Andes Ethnographic Vignettes of Cultural Politics in the Time of Multiculturalism
2014
Blackness in the andes: Ethnographic vignettes of cultural politics in the time of multiculturalism
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720
2013
Kings for three days: The play of race and gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian festival
2013
Kings for Three Days The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival
2013
Kings for Three Days
Full Text via DOI:
10.5406/illinois/9780252037511.001.0001
2012
Black Social Movements in Latin America From Monocultural Mestizaje to Multiculturalism
2012
Black social movements in latin america: From monocultural mestizaje and invisibility" to multiculturalism and state corporatism/co-optation
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137031433
2010
Global Circuits of Blackness Interrogating the African Diaspora
2010
Global Circuits of Blackness Interrogating the African Diaspora
2003
Problematizing Blackness Self-ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States
Book Chapter
2023
AFRODESCENDANTS, MULTICULTURALISM, AND THE ADOPTION OF ETHNORACIAL LAW IN LATIN AMERICA
. 222-229.
Full Text via DOI:
10.4324/9781003159247-24
Web of Science:
001016370700023
2020
Creolization and African Diaspora Cultures: The Case of the Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas
. 226-236.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1515/9780822390114-032
2020
National Identity and the First Black Miss Ecuador (1995–96)
. 341-349.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1515/9780822390114-046
2019
THE MULTICULTURAL TURN, THE NEW LATIN AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM, AND BLACK SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE ANDEAN SUB-REGION
. 389-402.
Web of Science:
000577117600026
2018
The multicultural turn, the new Latin American constitutionalism, and black social movements in the Andean sub-region
. 389-402.
Full Text via DOI:
10.4324/9781315621715-26
2018
New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora Afterword
. 367-369.
Web of Science:
000707113400024
2014
A Glimpse at Afro-Ecuadorian Politics, Influences on and Participation in Constitutional Processes, and State Corporatism
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720.0009
2014
Afrodescendants, the Multicultural Turn and the “New” Latin American Constitutions and Other Special Legislations
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720.0008
2014
Blackness, the Racial-Spatial Order at Work, and Beauty Contest Politics
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720.0010
2014
From Panacea for Harmonious Race Relations to Ideological Tool for Oppression and National Identity Imagination
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720.0007
2014
Fútbol and the (Tri-)Color of the Ecuadorian Nation
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720.0012
2014
Introduction
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720.0004
2014
Presence of Blackness and Representations of Jews in the Afro-Esmeraldian Celebrations of Semana Santa
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720.0006
2014
Stereotypes of Hypersexuality and the Embodiment of Blackness
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720.0011
2014
The Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas—Ecuador
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720.0005
2014
A Glimpse at Afro-Ecuadorian Politics, Influences on and Participation in Constitutional Processes, and State Corporatism
. 105-120.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720_6
2014
Afrodescendants, the Multicultural Turn and the “New” Latin American Constitutions and Other Special Legislations: Particularities of the Andean Region
. 89-103.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720_5
2014
Blackness, the Racial-Spatial Order at Work, and Beauty Contest Politics: Señoras, Mujeres, Blanqueamiento, and the Negra Permitida
. 121-146.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720_7
2014
From Panacea for Harmonious Race Relations to Ideological Tool for Oppression and National Identity Imagination: Reflections from the Andes on mestizaje through Time and Space
. 65-88.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720_4
2014
Fútbol and the (tri-)Color of the Ecuadorian Nation: Ideological and Visual (Dis-) Continuities of Black Otherness from Monocultural Mestizaje to Multiculturalism
. 175-197.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720_9
2014
Introduction
. 1-7.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720_1
2014
Presence of Blackness and Representations of Jews in the Afro-Esmeraldian Celebrations of Semana Santa
. 37-64.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720_3
2014
Stereotypes of Hypersexuality and the Embodiment of Blackness: Some Narratives of Female Sexuality in Quito, Ecuador
. 147-174.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720_8
2014
The Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas—Ecuador: Creolization/Malleability in the Time of Interculturalismo and Neo-Essentialism
. 9-35.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137272720_2
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
. 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
. 213-224.
Web of Science:
000314524400014
2012
Interview with Maria Inês Barbosa, Former Vice-Minister, Secretaria Especial de Políticas de Promoção da Igualdade Racial (SEPPIR), Brazil
. 213-224.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137031433_13
2012
Interview with María Alexandra Ocles Padilla, Former Minister, Secretaría de Pueblos, Movimientos Sociales y Participación Ciudadana, Ecuador
. 169-182.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137031433_10
2012
Introduction
. 1-12.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1057/9781137031433_1
2012
Introduction Black Social Movements in Latin America: From Monocultural Mestizaje and "Invisibility" to Multiculturalism and State Corporatism/Co-optation
. 1-12.
Web of Science:
000314524400002
2008
Creolization and African Diaspora Cultures
. 226-236.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1215/9780822390114-031
2008
National Identity and the First Black Miss Ecuador (1995–96)
. 341-349.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1215/9780822390114-046
2003
LUGARES DE IDENTIDAD Y REPRESENTACIONES: LO NEGRO EN LA FIESTA AFRO-ESMERALDEÑA DE LOS REYES, ECUADOR
. 169-194.
Full Text via DOI:
10.31819/9783865278043-012
2003
Racist stereotypes and the embodiment of blackness: Some narratives of female sexuality in Quito
. 296-324.
Book Review
2021
Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil
. Ed. 40.
Web of Science:
000697554700014
2020
Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
. Ed. 55.
Web of Science:
000567096400039
2020
Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil
. Ed. 55.
Web of Science:
000567096400043
2020
Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism
. Ed. 55.
Web of Science:
000567096400040
2020
Civil Rights and Beyond: African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth-Century United States
. Ed. 55.
Web of Science:
000567096400038
2020
Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States
. Ed. 55.
Web of Science:
000567096400037
2020
The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space
. Ed. 55.
Web of Science:
000567096400042
2020
The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil
. Ed. 55.
Web of Science:
000567096400041
2019
Unsettled: Denial and Belonging among White Kenyans
. Ed. 46.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1111/amet.12802
Web of Science:
000482378900014
2018
Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil
. Ed. 23.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1111/jlca.12334
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
2008
Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness
. Ed. 13.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1111/j.1935-4940.2008.00057.x
Web of Science:
000211693900019
2007
African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas
. Ed. 15.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/tran.2007.15.2.175
Web of Science:
000211548300015
2006
My Cocaine Museum
. Ed. 11.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlca.2006.11.1.233
Web of Science:
000211676100041
2000
Representations of blackness and the performance of identities
. Ed. 33.
Full Text via DOI:
10.2307/220746
Web of Science:
000169623500100
1999
Cultures of scholarship.
. Ed. 101.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/aa.1999.101.4.887
Web of Science:
000086129500050
Other Scholarly Work
2019
Evaluating the usefulness of contemporary ethnoracial law for Afrodescendants in Latin America through the examination of court cases and the appreciation of the state's processual nature INTRODUCTION
.
LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ETHNIC STUDIES
. 215-233.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1080/17442222.2019.1673531
Web of Science:
000540797800001
2006
Editor's Note
. IV-V.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlca.2006.11.1.iv
Web of Science:
000211676100001
2005
Editor's Note
. III-III.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlca.2005.10.2.iii
Web of Science:
000211676000001
2005
Editor's Note
. III-III.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlca.2005.10.1.iii
Web of Science:
000211675900001
2005
Entre Marx y una Mujer Desnuda
. 267-+.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1525/jlat.2005.10.1.267
Web of Science:
000211675900040
Review
2013
A Self-Identified U.S. Black Intellectual-Entrepreneur on Blacks in Latin America
. 153-156.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1111/j.1935-4940.2012.01272.x
Web of Science:
000211741400018
2004
The study of Latin American "racial formations": Different approaches and different contexts
.
LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH REVIEW
. 282-293.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1353/lar.2004.0057
Web of Science:
000224680100017
Research
principal investigator on
A Multifaceted Examination of the Application of Ethnoracial Law in Contemporary Multicultural Ecuador
awarded by
National Science Foundation
2021 - 2024
Consolidating and Developing the Observatory of Justice for Afrodescendants in Latin America (OJALA) at FIU
awarded by
Wenner-Gren Foundation
2019 - 2021
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
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