Jorge L Giovannetti
Biographic Data
| ID | 669440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jorge L Giovannetti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jorge L |
| FAMILY NAME | Giovannetti |
| SIGNATURE | GIOVANNETTI J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3862-5108 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Not Twenty Feet Away
Focusing in the early years of Sidney W Mintz's career and his 'anthropological record', this essay examines aspects of his legacy to the field of Caribbean studies. Using materials from Mintz's fieldwork in Puerto Rico during the 1940s and 1950s, the author discusses experiences that may have influenced Mintz's ideas and future scholarship in two specific areas. First, the localized fieldwork in the island's southern town of Jauca (Santa Isabel)…
Rescuing Our Roots
These two books deal with a topic I've been researching for years.Such intimacy can lead to meticulous scrutiny and demands a balancing act between assessing the books properly and resisting the urge to advance personal views.With that dilemma in mind, I enter familiar territory for this review.Historian Philip Howard examines the migration of thousands of Haitians and British Antillean workers to Cuba during the early twentieth century.Anthropol…
Subjects or Citizens
The century after the abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean colonies (from 1834 to 1934) witnessed more than a transformation in the systems of labor in the Americas. It was also a time of unprecedented mobility of workers across territories inside and around the Caribbean Sea. The bibliography of intra-Caribbean migrations includes studies on Leeward and Windward Islanders to South America and Puerto Rico, Haitian and eastern Caribbean s…
Caribbean Studies as Practice
This essay advances the definition of Caribbean studies as a practice. Rather than understanding this field of study as a preconceived category open for arbitrary self-appointment, a Caribbeanist practice should be something “which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened)”—to refer to E. P. Thompson's dictum. It “happens” through the multidisciplinary and border-crossing research of the Caribbean establishing intra- and extraregional c…
Subverting the Master's Narrative
This article examines public representations of slavery on plantation sites devoted to heritage tourism in the Americas. Plantations of various colonial backgrounds are compared in terms of the narratives they present, finding that the history of slavery is largely hidden in Barbados and Puerto Rico, while addressed more explicitly (although still problematically) in the Brazilian and Cuban cases. The article highlights the importance of tour gui…
"The Elusive Organization of "Identity
More than two decades ago
"The Elusive Organization of "Identity
More than two decades ago
Grounds of Race
Following a cross-disciplinary review of the debates on race in the Caribbean, this work focuses on the plantation as a space of racial formation, reclaiming the centrality of slavery for the understanding of race and racism in the region. The essay looks at continuities and changes in the racial legacy of slavery, analyzing the plantation as a defining space for racial meaning and for the racial experiences of those who lived in it and those who…
Subverting the Master's Narrative
This article examines public representations of slavery on plantation sites devoted to heritage tourism in the Americas. Plantations of various colonial backgrounds are compared in terms of the narratives they present, finding that the history of slavery is largely hidden in Barbados and Puerto Rico, while addressed more explicitly (although still problematically) in the Brazilian and Cuban cases. The article highlights the importance of tour gui…
Caribbean Studies as Practice
This essay advances the definition of Caribbean studies as a practice. Rather than understanding this field of study as a preconceived category open for arbitrary self-appointment, a Caribbeanist practice should be something “which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened)”—to refer to E. P. Thompson's dictum. It “happens” through the multidisciplinary and border-crossing research of the Caribbean establishing intra- and extraregional c…
Not Twenty Feet Away
Focusing in the early years of Sidney W Mintz's career and his 'anthropological record', this essay examines aspects of his legacy to the field of Caribbean studies. Using materials from Mintz's fieldwork in Puerto Rico during the 1940s and 1950s, the author discusses experiences that may have influenced Mintz's ideas and future scholarship in two specific areas. First, the localized fieldwork in the island's southern town of Jauca (Santa Isabel)…
"The Elusive Organization of "Identity
More than two decades ago
"The Elusive Organization of "Identity
More than two decades ago
Grounds of Race
Following a cross-disciplinary review of the debates on race in the Caribbean, this work focuses on the plantation as a space of racial formation, reclaiming the centrality of slavery for the understanding of race and racism in the region. The essay looks at continuities and changes in the racial legacy of slavery, analyzing the plantation as a defining space for racial meaning and for the racial experiences of those who lived in it and those who…
"The Elusive Organization of "Identity
More than two decades ago
"The Elusive Organization of "Identity
More than two decades ago
Grounds of Race
Following a cross-disciplinary review of the debates on race in the Caribbean, this work focuses on the plantation as a space of racial formation, reclaiming the centrality of slavery for the understanding of race and racism in the region. The essay looks at continuities and changes in the racial legacy of slavery, analyzing the plantation as a defining space for racial meaning and for the racial experiences of those who lived in it and those who…
Subverting the Master's Narrative
This article examines public representations of slavery on plantation sites devoted to heritage tourism in the Americas. Plantations of various colonial backgrounds are compared in terms of the narratives they present, finding that the history of slavery is largely hidden in Barbados and Puerto Rico, while addressed more explicitly (although still problematically) in the Brazilian and Cuban cases. The article highlights the importance of tour gui…
Caribbean Studies as Practice
This essay advances the definition of Caribbean studies as a practice. Rather than understanding this field of study as a preconceived category open for arbitrary self-appointment, a Caribbeanist practice should be something “which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened)”—to refer to E. P. Thompson's dictum. It “happens” through the multidisciplinary and border-crossing research of the Caribbean establishing intra- and extraregional c…
Subjects or Citizens
The century after the abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean colonies (from 1834 to 1934) witnessed more than a transformation in the systems of labor in the Americas. It was also a time of unprecedented mobility of workers across territories inside and around the Caribbean Sea. The bibliography of intra-Caribbean migrations includes studies on Leeward and Windward Islanders to South America and Puerto Rico, Haitian and eastern Caribbean s…
Rescuing Our Roots
These two books deal with a topic I've been researching for years.Such intimacy can lead to meticulous scrutiny and demands a balancing act between assessing the books properly and resisting the urge to advance personal views.With that dilemma in mind, I enter familiar territory for this review.Historian Philip Howard examines the migration of thousands of Haitians and British Antillean workers to Cuba during the early twentieth century.Anthropol…
Not Twenty Feet Away
Focusing in the early years of Sidney W Mintz's career and his 'anthropological record', this essay examines aspects of his legacy to the field of Caribbean studies. Using materials from Mintz's fieldwork in Puerto Rico during the 1940s and 1950s, the author discusses experiences that may have influenced Mintz's ideas and future scholarship in two specific areas. First, the localized fieldwork in the island's southern town of Jauca (Santa Isabel)…
Cuban History and Society (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works)