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The University of Connecticut
Department of Anthropology
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
354 Mansfield Road, Unit 2176
Storrs, CT 06269
Tel : 860-486-4515
E-mail: samuel.martinez@uconn.edu
Area of Speciality:
The Caribbean, African diaspora, agrarian societies, migration, human rights, and material culture
Biographical Note:
Professor Martínez is a Cuban-born ethnologist. He has served as Chair (2003-04) of the American Anthropological Association's Committee for Human Rights and has contributed an extensive expert affidavit in support of the case of Yean and Bosico v. Dominican Republic presented before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 2005. He is the author of two ethnographic monographs and several peer-reviewed articles on the migration and labor and minority rights of Haitian nationals and people of Haitian ancestry in the Dominican Republic. He expands on this concern in his on-going research by bringing into critical scrutiny the writings of northern human rights monitors, journalists and social scientists about Haitians in the Dominican Republic. He is also doing background research on a historical comparative study of the social organization and rhetoric of campaigns against "new slavery" (late-19th & early 20th centuries and late 20th & early 21st centuries).
Selected Publications:
Books:
2007 Decency and Excess:
Global Aspirations and Material Deprivation on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation.
Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.
1995 Peripheral Migrants: Haitians and Dominican Republic Sugar Plantations. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Edited Books and Journals:
Forthcoming International Migration and Human Rights: The Global Repercussions of US Policy.
2006 (with Charles V Carnegie) "Crossing Borders of Language and Culture." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 19.
Articles:
Forthcoming "Toward an Anthropology of Excess: Wanting More (while Getting Less) On a (Caribbean) Global Periphery." In Ethnographies, Histories, and Power: Critically Engaging the Intersections of Culture and Political Economy. Aisha Khan, George Baca, and Stephan Palmié, editors. Durham: University of North Carolina Press.
2007 "Making Violence Visible: An Activist Anthropological Approach to Women's Rights Investigation." In Engaging Contradictions: Making the Case for Activist Scholarship. Charles Hale, editor. Berkeley: University of California International and Area Studies Program and University of California Press.
2005 "Searching for a Middle Path: Rights, Capabilities, and Political Culture in the Study of Female Genital Cutting." Ahfad (Omdurman, Sudan) 22(1): 31-44.
2003 “Not a Cockfight: Rethinking Haitian-Dominican Relations.” Latin American Perspectives 30(3): 80-101.
2003 “Identities at the Dominican and Puerto Rican International Migrant Crossroads.” In Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures in the Caribbean , Shalini Puri, ed. Pp.141-64. London: Macmillan.
2002 “Activist Anthropology: Working Together and Sharing the Gain.” GSC Quarterly 5 (http://www.ssrc.org/programs/gsc/gsc_quarterly/newsletter5/).
1999 “Migration from the Caribbean: Economic and Political Factors versus Legal and Illegal Status.” In Illegal Immigration in America: A Reference Handbook , David W. Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum, eds. Pp.273-92. Westport: Greenwood Publishing.
1999 “From Hidden Hand to Heavy Hand: Sugar, the State, and Migrant Labor in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.” Latin American Research Review 34(1): 57-84.
1997 “The Masking of History: Popular Images of the Nation on a Dominican Sugar Plantation.” Nieuwe West-Indische Gids/New West Indian Guide 71(3 & 4): 227-48.
1996 “Indifference within Indignation: Anthropology, Human Rights, and the Haitian Bracero.” American Anthropologist 98(1): 17-25.
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