Gabriel A Torres Colón
Biographic Data
| ID | 137091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel A Torres Colón |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel A Torres |
| FAMILY NAME | Colón |
| SIGNATURE | COLÓN G A T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7343-0939 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
To Be Like the Greatest: The Limits and Possibilities of Performing Socially Embodied Difference
This article explores the limits and possibilities of social actors to represent and alter “socially embodied difference” through language and sporting performance. Performative cohesion is contingent on assemblages of colonial domination, racial-gendered hierarchies, and other forms of material and symbolic inequalities. These assemblages result in events where particular forms of socially embodied difference have varying registers within the pe…
The Colobó People: Conserving the Mangroves and Bomba Through Maroonage
This essay focuses on the work of the bomba composer and environmentalist Marcos Peñaloza Pica, who identifies as a descendant of Maroons and enslaved peoples. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with crews replanting and conserving the mangrove forest, bomba musicians, and community elders, the author examine how Marcos's compositions give voice and corporal meaning to Afro–Puerto Rican subjectivity. This subjectivity reimagines African traditions, …
Bodily Reorientations Within Racial Imaginaries: Learning Boxing Styles in the United States
Boxing styles typify interrelated sets of fighting techniques and combative characters. Because boxers acquire a style through bodily practice and styles in the United States are often tied to racialized social groups, an ethnography of the acquisition of boxing styles presents an opportunity to examine how youth, in conjunction with other social actors in the boxing world, reorient their bodies within racial imaginaries. Bridging experiential an…
Neglect by Concern: Seeding Resistance in Puerto Rico's Mangrove Forest
The Corporación Piñones Se Integra (COPI), a community-based nonprofit organization, comanages and maintains the community’s ancestral mangrove forest. As one of Puerto Rico’s poorest sectors, Piñones has suffered the same ecological hardships that have afflicted the island; however, piñoneros have averted catastrophic flooding of their community by organizing projects to clear brush from mangrove channels and reforest mangrove trees. This articl…
Racial experience and knowing the political in liberal democracies
Liberal democracies politicize racist incidents at the expense of institutionalizing antiracist ideologies through party politics. This article is concerned with how racial experience shapes how people come to ‘know the political’ in Ceuta, a Spanish city on the Spanish-Moroccan borderland. Knowing the political is an embodied form of subjectivity that makes meaningful sense out of governmental politics as an extension of social life. After exami…
Fighting for Family and Glory: Hope, Racialization, and Exploitation in a U.S. Boxing Gym
Relaying on years of ethnographic research and boxers’ life stories, this article examines how boxers from racialized and marginalized communities hope for family and glory in a Midwestern U.S. gym. Hope for family is embraced by youth and young adults who develop familial ties with trainers and fellow boxers. Hope for glory begins in gyms but ultimately must be sought in competitive arenas of elite amateur tournaments and professional boxing. Co…
Concussions and Risk Within Cultural Contexts of Play
Concussions are a type of traumatic injury caused by a jolting of the brain that disrupts normal brain function, and multiple concussions can lead to serious long-term health consequences. In this article, we examine the relationship between college students' understanding of concussions and their willingness to continue playing despite the possibility of sustaining multiple head injuries. We use a mixed-methods approach that includes participant…
Toward a Pragmatist Anthropology of Race
Research Article| April 01 2016 Toward a Pragmatist Anthropology of Race Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colón; Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colón Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Charles A. Hobbs Charles A. Hobbs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Pluralist (2016) 11 (1): 126–135. https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.11.1.0126 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Sea…
The Intertwining of Culture and Nature: Franz Boas, John Dewey, and Deweyan Strands of American Anthropology
This article argues that John Dewey, influenced by Franz Boas and early American anthropology, made the first attempt to understand nature from a modern anthropological perspective. We first explain how Boas helped develop the culture concept, which played a key role in the development Dewey's own understanding of experience. In support of our interpretation of Dewey's anthropology of nature, we conclude with some consideration of how Dewey's ant…
Parties of Muslim Persuasion and the Left in Ceuta, Spain
Wholly unknown to some Spaniards and many Europeans, Ceuta is a small Spanish exclave on Morocco's North African coast, directly across from the Rock of Gibraltar. For the people of Ceuta, their land has been unquestionably Spanish since 1640 when Portugal ceded the territory to Spain. Portugal had previously captured it from its Muslim inhabitants in 1415 as part of the Christian Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula. For most of its history, Ceut…
The Intertwining of Culture and Nature: Franz Boas, John Dewey, and Deweyan Strands of American Anthropology
This article argues that John Dewey, influenced by Franz Boas and early American anthropology, made the first attempt to understand nature from a modern anthropological perspective. We first explain how Boas helped develop the culture concept, which played a key role in the development Dewey's own understanding of experience. In support of our interpretation of Dewey's anthropology of nature, we conclude with some consideration of how Dewey's ant…
Toward a Pragmatist Anthropology of Race
Research Article| April 01 2016 Toward a Pragmatist Anthropology of Race Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colón; Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colón Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Charles A. Hobbs Charles A. Hobbs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Pluralist (2016) 11 (1): 126–135. https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.11.1.0126 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Sea…
Fighting for Family and Glory: Hope, Racialization, and Exploitation in a U.S. Boxing Gym
Relaying on years of ethnographic research and boxers’ life stories, this article examines how boxers from racialized and marginalized communities hope for family and glory in a Midwestern U.S. gym. Hope for family is embraced by youth and young adults who develop familial ties with trainers and fellow boxers. Hope for glory begins in gyms but ultimately must be sought in competitive arenas of elite amateur tournaments and professional boxing. Co…
Concussions and Risk Within Cultural Contexts of Play
Concussions are a type of traumatic injury caused by a jolting of the brain that disrupts normal brain function, and multiple concussions can lead to serious long-term health consequences. In this article, we examine the relationship between college students' understanding of concussions and their willingness to continue playing despite the possibility of sustaining multiple head injuries. We use a mixed-methods approach that includes participant…
Parties of Muslim Persuasion and the Left in Ceuta, Spain
Wholly unknown to some Spaniards and many Europeans, Ceuta is a small Spanish exclave on Morocco's North African coast, directly across from the Rock of Gibraltar. For the people of Ceuta, their land has been unquestionably Spanish since 1640 when Portugal ceded the territory to Spain. Portugal had previously captured it from its Muslim inhabitants in 1415 as part of the Christian Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula. For most of its history, Ceut…
The Intertwining of Culture and Nature: Franz Boas, John Dewey, and Deweyan Strands of American Anthropology
This article argues that John Dewey, influenced by Franz Boas and early American anthropology, made the first attempt to understand nature from a modern anthropological perspective. We first explain how Boas helped develop the culture concept, which played a key role in the development Dewey's own understanding of experience. In support of our interpretation of Dewey's anthropology of nature, we conclude with some consideration of how Dewey's ant…
Toward a Pragmatist Anthropology of Race
Research Article| April 01 2016 Toward a Pragmatist Anthropology of Race Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colón; Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colón Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Charles A. Hobbs Charles A. Hobbs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Pluralist (2016) 11 (1): 126–135. https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.11.1.0126 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Sea…
Concussions and Risk Within Cultural Contexts of Play
Concussions are a type of traumatic injury caused by a jolting of the brain that disrupts normal brain function, and multiple concussions can lead to serious long-term health consequences. In this article, we examine the relationship between college students' understanding of concussions and their willingness to continue playing despite the possibility of sustaining multiple head injuries. We use a mixed-methods approach that includes participant…
Fighting for Family and Glory: Hope, Racialization, and Exploitation in a U.S. Boxing Gym
Relaying on years of ethnographic research and boxers’ life stories, this article examines how boxers from racialized and marginalized communities hope for family and glory in a Midwestern U.S. gym. Hope for family is embraced by youth and young adults who develop familial ties with trainers and fellow boxers. Hope for glory begins in gyms but ultimately must be sought in competitive arenas of elite amateur tournaments and professional boxing. Co…
Racial experience and knowing the political in liberal democracies
Liberal democracies politicize racist incidents at the expense of institutionalizing antiracist ideologies through party politics. This article is concerned with how racial experience shapes how people come to ‘know the political’ in Ceuta, a Spanish city on the Spanish-Moroccan borderland. Knowing the political is an embodied form of subjectivity that makes meaningful sense out of governmental politics as an extension of social life. After exami…
Neglect by Concern: Seeding Resistance in Puerto Rico's Mangrove Forest
The Corporación Piñones Se Integra (COPI), a community-based nonprofit organization, comanages and maintains the community’s ancestral mangrove forest. As one of Puerto Rico’s poorest sectors, Piñones has suffered the same ecological hardships that have afflicted the island; however, piñoneros have averted catastrophic flooding of their community by organizing projects to clear brush from mangrove channels and reforest mangrove trees. This articl…
Bodily Reorientations Within Racial Imaginaries: Learning Boxing Styles in the United States
Boxing styles typify interrelated sets of fighting techniques and combative characters. Because boxers acquire a style through bodily practice and styles in the United States are often tied to racialized social groups, an ethnography of the acquisition of boxing styles presents an opportunity to examine how youth, in conjunction with other social actors in the boxing world, reorient their bodies within racial imaginaries. Bridging experiential an…
To Be Like the Greatest: The Limits and Possibilities of Performing Socially Embodied Difference
This article explores the limits and possibilities of social actors to represent and alter “socially embodied difference” through language and sporting performance. Performative cohesion is contingent on assemblages of colonial domination, racial-gendered hierarchies, and other forms of material and symbolic inequalities. These assemblages result in events where particular forms of socially embodied difference have varying registers within the pe…
The Colobó People: Conserving the Mangroves and Bomba Through Maroonage
This essay focuses on the work of the bomba composer and environmentalist Marcos Peñaloza Pica, who identifies as a descendant of Maroons and enslaved peoples. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with crews replanting and conserving the mangrove forest, bomba musicians, and community elders, the author examine how Marcos's compositions give voice and corporal meaning to Afro–Puerto Rican subjectivity. This subjectivity reimagines African traditions, …
Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mangrove (2 works)