Re-Theorizing the African Diaspora Metaphor, Revelation, Recognition & Consciousness

The UC Multi-Campus Research Group in African Studies presents

Percy Hintzen

Professor of African American Studies, Chair of the Center for African Studies, and former Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley

Percy C. Hintzen is Professor and former Chair of African American Studies, a former Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He serves, currently, as Chair of the Center for African Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Political Sociology from Yale University in 1981. His scholarship is organized around an examination of the relationship between the African Diaspora and the modern. More generally, it examines relationships among modernity, political economy, and the production of difference. His research has focused on the West Indies, Africa, and black immigrants to the United States. His publications include The Costs of Regime Survival, Cambridge University Press, 1989, West Indian in the West, New York University Press, 2001 and Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States (edited with Jean Rahier), Routledge, 2003. He has also published numerous articles in journals and chapters in books on race, ethnicity, class, and political economy.