Percy C Hintzen "Identity Fault Lines: African Americans and Caribbean/African Immigrants"

Prof. Hintzen teaches courses in Political and Economic Development, African and Caribbean Political Economy, and Comparative Race and Ethnic Relations. His research focuses on race, ethnicity and class as identity constructs in post-colonial political economy, with a sub-focus on immigrant identity construction in the United States, concentrating on West Indian migrants and urban America, especially Oakland.

Publications include: The Costs of Regime Survival: Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination, and Control of the State in Guyana and Trinidad. (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1989); seventy-one biographic entries on Caribbean and Haitian leaders in the Dictionary of Latin American and Caribbean Political Biography edited by Robert J. Alexander (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1988); West Indians in the West, Self Representations in a Migrant Community (New York University Press, 1999); "Identity, Arena, and Performance: Being West Indian in the San Francisco Bay Area" in Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identies edited by Jean Rahier (Westport: Greenwood Press, Forthcoming); "Adapting to Segregation: African American Strategies in the Post Welfare Environment" Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy (Vol IV, 1998, pp 45-48).