Research Interests: Race, Ethnicity and International
Migration
Courses Taught
Ideology and Violence
Diversity and Criminal Justice
World as a Total System
Selected Publications
America Beyond Black and White: How Immigrants and
Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide (University of
Michigan Press, 2007)
Mappers of Society:
The Lives, Times and Legacies of Eight Great Sociologists. This book was
published by Praeger in June of 2003.
America’s Banquet of Cultures:
Harnessing Race, Ethnicity and Immigration in the Twenty-First Century.
Published by Praeger in June of 2000; the paper version appeared in June
of 2001.
Puerto Rico Past and Present:
A Reference Guide. I wrote this book with Serafin Mendez Mendez and Gail
Cueto. (Greenwood, 1998). It received the Denali Press Award for
1999 from the American Library Association. Both The New York Public
Library and Choice selected this book as one of the
outstanding academic books of 1998. The
American
Library Association selected it as one of the outstanding reference
books of 1998.
The Disenchanted Island:
The United States and Puerto Rico in the Twentieth Century (New York:
Praeger, 1996, 2nd edition). Cultural Puertorriqueña published a Spanish
edition of this book in 1996. Daniel Rey Díaz translated the book.
