Degrees<\/strong><\/p>\nPh.D. University at Albany, State University of New York, Latin American Caribbean Studies,\u00a02002<\/p>\n
M.A. University at Albany, State University of New York, Latin American Caribbean Studies, 1997<\/p>\n
B.A. University at Albany, State University of New York, Ibero-Latin American History, 1994<\/p>\n
Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\nDr. Roopnarine\u2019s field of study is interdisciplinary, drawing on methods and concepts in history, sociology, economics and environmental science to understand labor migration, resistance, human rights, identity as well as environment policy challenges in the Caribbean. For the past fifteen years, his research has focused on the movement of Asian contract\/peasant workers to the Caribbean and their plantation experience with regard to their adaptation to structural dominance.<\/p>\n
Dr. Roopnarine\u2019s environmental research focuses on the link between the Guyanese government, the vast interior region and economic development while his current research involves intra-regional (within the Caribbean) and extra-regional Caribbean (to North America and Europe) migration as well as social identity formation in the contemporary Caribbean. Additionally, his research examines social identity of and among East Indian, African and Hispanic Caribbean ethnic groups and is particularly interested in exploring alternative ways in analyzing social identity in the Caribbean. Specifically, he takes the position that Creole identity (Euro-African) does not apply to many Caribbean ethnic groups and has developed a bi-structural analysis of national and trans-Caribbean identities to analyze the social identity of Caribbean Asians and other ethnic groups. Dr. Roopnarine believes that identity is negotiated and shaped by geography, history, political leadership, migration and globalization which is not totally physical or permanent but also imaginative, incorporating issues of ethnicity, resistance, human rights, among other factors<\/p>\n
Courses Taught<\/strong><\/p>\nJackson State University (2012 – \u00a0 )<\/p>\n
Graduate course: The History the Caribbean 530 online<\/p>\n
World Civilization 101 HISTORICAL (also online)<\/p>\n
World Civilization 102 MODERN (also online)<\/p>\n
History of Colonial Latin America 327<\/p>\n
History of Modern Latin America 328<\/p>\n
History of the Caribbean 329<\/p>\n
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Book Publications<\/strong><\/p>\nIndian Migration and Identity Formation in the Caribbean <\/i>(forthcoming 2018, University Press of Mississippi)<\/p>\n
Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, <\/i>London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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