Jorge Capetillo-Ponce

Office: Wheatley, 4th floor, Rm 25
Telephone: 617-287-6284
Email: jorge.capetillo@umb.edu

Jorge Capetillo-Ponce is presently Associate Professor of Sociology and Acting Chair of Latino Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Before joining UMass Boston, Dr. Capetillo-Ponce worked as Executive Director of the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York City and as advisor to Latino grassroots organizations in New York and Massachusetts. He has publications on such issues as social theory, race and ethnic relations, media studies, Latino Studies, and U.S.-Latin America relations. Dr. Capetillo-Ponce is the editor of the book Images of Mexico in the U.S. News Media.

Representative Publications
Capetillo-Ponce, Jorge. Black-Latino/a relations in Boston: Two Trends of Collective Identification. In Latino Studies (forthcoming).

Binkley, Samuel and Capetillo-Ponce, Jorge. A Foucault for the 21st. Century: Governmentality, Biopolitics, and Discipline in the New Millenium. Newcastle UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.

On Borderlands and Bridges: An Inquiry into Gloria Anzaldúa’s Methodology (forthcoming)

Capetillo-Ponce, J. “From 'A Clash of Civilizations' to 'Internal Colonialism': Reactions to the Theoretical Bases of Samuel Huntington's 'The Hispanic Challenge.’” Ethnicities 7(1), 2007.

Capetillo-Ponce, J. “Deciphering the Labyrinth: The Influence of Georg Simmel on the Sociology of Octavio Paz." Theory, Culture & Society, December 2005.

Politics, Ethnicity, and Bilingual Education in Massachusetts

Framing the ‘Taxes and Undocumented Workers’ Debate: A Critical Review of Texts Supporting Pro-Enforcement Policies and Practices

Foucault, Marxism, and the Cuban Revolution: Historical and Contemporary Reflections

Foucault and the ‘New Man’: Conversations on Foucault in Cuba