José Itzigsohn graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1995. He is the author of Developing Poverty (Penn State, 2000) and Encountering American Faultlines (Russel Sage, 2009). He has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters on racial identity formation, panethnicity, and transnationalism among first and second generation immigrants from Latin America. He is currently working on economic democracy in cooperatives in Argentina and on the sociological theory work of W.E.B Du Bois.
| Itzigsohn, José Postcolonial Thought and Social TheoryPostcolonial Thought and Social Theory, by GoJulian. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 248 pp. $27.95 paper. ISBN: 9780190625146.. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews/Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. 2018; 47 (5) : 587-588. |
| Bohrt, M. A., Itzigsohn, J. Class, Race, and the Incorporation of Latinos/as: Testing the Stratified Ethnoracial Incorporation Approach. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity/Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 2015; 1 (3) : 360-377. |
| Itzigsohn, José, Brown, Karida SOCIOLOGY AND THE THEORY OF DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race/Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 2015; 12 (02) : 231-248. |
| Itzigsohn, Jose Making New York Dominican: Small Business, Politics, and Everyday Life. By ChristianKrohn-Hansen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 312 pages. $69.95. Int Migr Rev/Int Migr Rev. 2014; 48 (1) : 276-277. |
| Itzigsohn, Jose Making New York Dominican: Small Business, Politics, and Everyday Life. By ChristianKrohn-Hansen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 312 pages. $69.95. Int Migr Rev/Int Migr Rev. 2014; 48 (1) : 276-277. |
| Itzigsohn, José Class, Race, and Emancipation. The CLR James Journal/The CLR James Journal. 2013; 19 (1) : 177-198. |
| Class, Race, and Emancipation: The Contributions of The Black Jacobins and Black Reconstruction in America to historical sociology and social theory. The CLR James Journal. 2013; 19 (1-2) |
| Itzigsohn, José RACIALIZATION, ASSIMILATION, AND THE MEXICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race/Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 2011; 8 (02) : 502-506. |
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Encountering American Faultlines.
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| Jose Itzigsohn & Daniela Villacres Migrant Political Transnationalism and the Practice of Democracy: Dominican external voting rights and Salvadoran home town associations. Ethnic and racial studies. 2008; 31 (4) : 664-686. |
| Jose Itzigsohn and Matthias vom Hau Unfinished Imagined Communities: The theoretical implications of nationalism in Latin America. Theory and Society/Theory and Society. 2006; 32 (2) : 193-212. |
| Itzigsohn, José, Giorguli, Silvia, Vazquez, Obed Immigrant incorporation and racial identity: Racial self-identification among Dominican immigrants. Ethnic and Racial Studies/Ethnic and racial studies. 2005; 28 (1) : 50-78. |
| Itzigsohn, José, Giorguli-Saucedo, Silvia Incorporation, Transnationalism, and Gender: Immigrant Incorporation and Transnational Participation as Gendered Processes. International Migration Review/Int Migr Rev. 2005; 39 (4) : 895-920. |
| Itzigsohn, José, Saucedo, Silvia Giorguli Immigrant Incorporation and Sociocultural Transnationalism1. International Migration Review/Int Migr Rev. 2002; 36 (3) : 766-798. |
Areas of interest: race and ethnic relations, Latino immigration, development.
My work focuses on two areas. The first is identity and group formation, with a focus on processes of racialization, and ethnic and nation formation. I have published numerous articles on ethnic and racial identity and transnationalism. I am also the author of "Encountering American Faultlines" (Russell Sage 2009). This book analyzes the the experience of incorporation of the Dominican second generation in Providence, and through that experience it looks at the class and racial faultlines that structure American society.
My second area of interest is alternative forms of economic organization. I am the author of "Developing Poverty" (Penn State Press, 2000). In that book I compare the structure of the informal economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic and the relationship between the informal economy and the state. Currently I am writing a book on industrial democracy in Argentina, studying the organizational forms of the worker-owned factories.
Another current project of mine is a book on the sociological theoretical aspects of W.E.B Du Bois work.
I work within the world-system theoretical paradigm, but I am interested in the local variations within the world economic and political systems. I investigate how local and regional institutional forms and identity formation processes develop and interact with world-systemic trends.
| Year | Degree | Institution |
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| 1995 | PhD | The Johns Hopkins University |
| 1991 | MA | The Johns Hopkins University |
| 1989 | BA | Hebrew University |
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2009. Encountering American Faultlines: Class, Race, and the Dominican Experience, NewYork, NY: Russell Sage Foundation. (Co-winner of the American Sociological Association Latino/a Sociology Section 2009 Best Contribution to Research Best Book Award).
American Sociological Association
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Eastern Sociological Society
| SOC 1270 - Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the Modern World |
| SOC 1871D - Sophomore Seminar in Sociology of Development |
| SOC 2040 - Classical Sociological Theory |
| SOC 2260D - Race, Ethnicity, and Nation: Boundaries, Identities, Inequalities |
| SOC 2260G - The Souls of Sociology: W.E.B Du Bois and Critical Sociologies of Race |
| SOC 2510 - Teaching Practicum in Sociology |
